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EXORDIUM. 



TO ALL WHO LOVE OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST-GREETING : 

This is my second attempt (in this way) to 
help on the blessed wave of " Holiness " that 
has come to us through the "good mercies of our 
God." 

Compare it by the Word and not by your 
creed. 

Remember ."The time is. . at hand. He 
that is unjust let him be unjust still, and he which 
is filthy let him be filthy still, and he that is 
righteous let him be righteous still, and he that 
is holy let him be holy still." — Rev, 

I pray that this may help many to "cast 
their burden on the Lord" — to "walk in the light 
as He is in the light" — to be made free indeed 
— free from sin. Amen. 

THOS. WADLINGTON. 
Fulton, Ky., Dec. 9, 1886. 



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Printed at the FULTONIAN office, Fulton, Kentucky. 




CHAPTER I. 



Can a man be a Christian and not Know It? 

If I ask a man, Are you a Democrat ? he 
says at once he is, and a simon-pure one, too. 

I ask another, Are you a Republican ? He 
unhesitatingly says he is. I heard one poor 
old man, with hair as white as wool, say he was 
a Republican as "black as the devil." He seemed 
to have no doubts about it. 

I say to another. Are you a Baptist, brother? 
The answer comes in this way, Yes, sir, and a 
"Landmarker," too. Poor man ! learn what this 
meaneth : To be "Landmark" Baptists in the 
truest sense is to be holy men and women in the 
Lord. Holiness is Landmarkism. The Exami- 
ner, of New York, was certainly right in one of 
its last April, a year gone, issues, when it stated 
that there were certain localities in the South 
which were " cursed with Landmarkism, so- 
called." 

Now I come to one and say, Brother, are 



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you aCnristian ? And after some hesitancy he 
says, Well, I don't know — I hope so ! !! Why, 
brother, there is nothing so transforming as Re- 
ligion. It changes the man inside and out. 
Can a man be a Christian and not know it? — 
born from on high and not know it? 

Can a man be turned out of a dark dungeon 
and not know it? Can a man have his eyes 
opened that were born blind and not know it? 
Can a man be resurrected from the dead and not 
know it? If so, then he may be a Christian and 
not know it, as the regenerated man is compared 
to all these and more. 

Hear the man of Uz : "I know that my 
Redeemer liveth." — Job 19:25. Hear Paul: 
"I know whom I have Geneved. 1 ' — 2d Tim., 1 : 2. 
St. John says in his 1st epistle, 5 : 13: "These 
things have I written unto you that believe on 
the name of the Son of God, that ye may know 
that ye have have eternal life. 

If you, my brother or sister, can't decide 
about your condition spiritually, who can? 
Can any of your neighbors decide it ? I fear not. 
Dear "brother, never rest until you can exclaim 
with the great Apodtle : "The Spirit itself bear- 
eth witness with our spirit that we are children 
of God." This is the "Landmarkism" we as a 
people are suffering for to-day — a living witness 
or testimony that we are the children of God. 



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CHAPTER II. 



The Flesh and the Spirit. 

Now there are a great many church members 
laying the sins which they commit to the flesh ! ! 
— teaching the doctrine that religion does not 
change the flesh— that is the outer man — and in 
this faith they are continually sinning and as 
often laying it to the flesh!! Strange doctrine 
indeed. If religion does not change a man out- 
side, what will ? Will Masonry, Politics, or Tem- 
perance do the work ? Man must be renewed 
if he ever gets to Heaven, for nothing impure 
can enter there. Remember the Book declares 
that "If any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new 
creature. Old things have parsed away and 
behold all things have become new." 

This practice of laying sins on the flesh is 
so much like Adam and Eve in Eden. The Lord 
said to Adam, *'Hast thou eaten of the tree ? 
And Adam at once laid the blame on the wo- 
man. Eve of the same kind, throws the blame 
on the serpent. Now, dear brother, were they 
excusable? No. They both had a curse pro- 
nounced against them so long as their seed fhould 
remain on the earth, Remember that Jesus can 
save the flesh as well as the spirit and the one 
will never get to heaven without the other fol- 
lowing or accompanying the one. 



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Hear these things concerning the flesh : 

"Walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfil 
the lusts of the flesh."— Gal., 5 : 16. Again, "In 
whom ye also are circumcised with the circumcis- 
ion made without hands, in putting off the body 
of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of 
Christ."— Col., 2:11. 

This doctrine of a pure spirit but sinful 
flesh is certainly none other than the doctrine of 
Balaam of ancient times, the followers of which 
are so fearfully denounced by Peter-Jude-and in 
Revelations. They are called "murmurers com- 
plainers, walking after their own lusts," "trees 
whose fruit withereth," "without fruit, twice 
bead," "wells without water," "clouds that are 
carried with a tempest to whom the mist of dark- 
ness is reserved forever." Again, "But chiefly 
them that walk after the flesh in the lusts 
of uncleanness " "For when they speak great 
swelling words of vanity a they allure through 
the lusts of the flesh — through much wanton- 
ness — those that were clean escaped from those 
who live in error. 

Are not these modern Balaamites the very 
men who were "before ordained of old to this 
condemnation ? ungodly men turning the grace 
of our God into lasciviousness." Brother, if 
if you object to being a Balaamite, you teach the 
doctrine of the Nicolaitanes in this pure-spirit 
and sinning-flesh doctrine, which doctiine is 



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hated by him that rideth on the white horse and 
holdeth the seven stars in his right hand. 

Bat some brother is ready to say, We will get 
holy when we die. There is more reason in the 
Romish theory of Purgatorial cleansing than in 
this idea of death or the grave making us holy. 
Really the doctrine of becoming holy when 
we die or are in the grave, is Catholicism in its 
incipiency, and equally as dangerous and hetero- 
dox. 

The Jews got so fearfully depraved, that in- 
stead of offering to God a lamb without blemish, 
as He required, they brought dead beasts to God's 
altar, and here is where the church is to-day, 
waiting until they die to give their bodies to the 
Lord. While they live they must serve the 
Devil, but when it becomes a defunct carcass, 
go< id for nothing but food for worms, they give 
it to God 1 ! ! 



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CHAPTER III. 

C i , : ? '.] ' If 

The Commandments. 

Strange tK'ei idea^thiat tha church entertains 
regarding, the keeping pf the copimandpaeuts— ; 
paying that ,we cannqt kepp |,he. commandments. 
JL preacher r^otlpng since ^aiclto. rr^e,, "There i£ 
not a^man.on parth who can keep the commands 
pients ."■ ,W^y., then, 7 were they, given? . Why all 
kfyat fearfuVrockirjg of, Siiia^—rtbat a>wfui thun- 
der and Hghtning n an(J ; the pounding of .the trum- 
pet, arid the ascending smoke,, anc^ ,the giving of 
tjae la^v; to JV^oses?; Was, ,ail this, gqtt^n.up as 
a meaningless show — to affrighjt ,the, Israelites ? 
.Qar^it ,bp .that God would,- give man a. law; thai 
<was beyQnd fiis power,, to keep. f an$ th^n punish 
nian jfor.yiplated law!!? Certainly .not t Will q, 
father^ (Jeal $o with his children?, Npt one.; { 
{ , ( Xhe i.aw^pf ,the Goyjernment niust.be faith- 
fully oj^seryed,, and tr^e . transgressor, thpugh hp 
^9 thq jvidow ( 's pnliy bpy, must pay, the full pen 7 
alty of the; law, , v tK . ., lS { ... u , . 

, Can Yte ponceive of God as giving a law and 
not < requiring ( strict f obedience n to His, law? 
Must ,mpre. than 5,Q00,0Q0 of slaves ' l gp free'' on 
a^cprtain day, because, ascertain, man . decrees it? 
Must 500,0Q0 men leave^their bomes, and, families 
dpar^ag} life tq themiand go into, awful combat just 



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b-.'Cix us the X;U i > > c - i . / ^ s • i 

becbthsi ihS Naifton calls? " Must the young man 
KiA^&tflihi 1 rdjje^'encl j list because the law kays; 
MfoiimftWtfciIP'? A Andean ttfc Violate God's! 
t j 6^ (> ia# ,:, w , ith i the ? ex&u£e that We' cannot "kee^ 
ifi^cohrfniatidm^hts'? 'Wheft we read "Thou shalt 
ItNfe thfe 'ISbM j tliy God witjh all thy heart, mind; 
86\xi dfrcP Strength" l it is bur duty to &o love'Hinr,' 
aft'et'tyheii 1 We thiis love God we will love our 
neignbbr iis ourself, * [ l ! ' !i " " 

i' ''But, 1 say many, " "We Tivfe Under a new dis ; 
pensntioii."' What is the 1 newdisperisktibn, Bro^ 
th*er? ! 'Hfearit: J The j 01d said, "Thou shalt riot 
cbmmit adultery.'*' The ' NeW says; " WhosdeV^r 
looketh dh a w6m^n to lust after' her hath com* 
mitted adultery with her" already f in 'his heart.' 
The Old said, ' "Thori shalt not kill.'.' Thd 
New said, "Whdsdever halteth his * brother is a' 
murderer."' Ydu &ee the differ&rice in i the dis 1 
jjensation in the ; above. Oh, brother, love God 
w T ith all your heartand the others' are easily 1 kept! 
J The reason the commandments are not kept 1 
is because we don*t Want- to keep'them. The 
young man said to 'Jesu^,' ' "All* these have I 
kept' from my yduth' up." 1 Our' Lord said, ''Who- 
soever heareth' these sayingis of mineahd doetK 
them not. shall be like the mari ; who built his 
house on the sand." " If ye* ye know these 
things happy are ye if ye do: them." m i i '■• 

1 ' Keeping the commandments is not perfec- 
tion. Jesus said to the young man, "If thou 



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wilt be perfect sell that thou hast." Now, young 
man, if you desire perfection keep the command- 
ments — in the first place — and in the second 
place give up everything for God. Die to the 
world. Give up pride, the Holy Spirit can't 
dwell in a proud heart. Give up revenge, malice, 
hatred, self-will. And then live to God — com- 
mune w T ith him by day and by night and so u be 
ye also ready." 

"He that saith I know Him and keepeth 
not his commandments is a liar, and the truth 
is not in him." — 1st John, 2 : 4. 

Oh! we must die to the world and its ap- 
plause! Be crucified with Christ that you may 
live with him. To die to sin is not an easy death, 
it is "compared to crucifixion. But praise the 
Lord. The life that follows such a death is sweet, 
calm and peaceful. 



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CHAPTER IV. 



"The Kingdom of Heaven." 

Our Saviour, while on earth, said that "The 
Kingdom of Heaven is in you." And He com- 
pared it to what? Not to a melting snail, nor to 
smoke out of the chimney, nor to the morning 
cloud, nor to the early dew, all of which soon 
passeth away. True, the above things are much 
like the profession of some people's religion — 
soon gone. 

He compared the "Kingdom of Heaven in 
you" to a grain of mustard seed and to leaven. 
The grain of mustard seed is very small and 
grows in the East, it is said, to a great size. The 
leaden has a permeating, prowling, searching, 
changing nature, and ceases not this until the 
whole lump is leavened. 

Unto to what did He compare the child of 
God? To a bat that lives in dark rooms and caves 
of the earth ? To an owl that flies in the night? 
not so, though many of our Brethren and sisters 
in the churches are like these cave bats and 
night owls! The lord have mercy on such birds 
that fly in the night and move in the dark ! ! 

He compared the child of God to the eagle — 
the eagle that flies higher than any bird. There 
is a tradition of this bird: That every ten years 



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he becomes weary of the desolations of hi& Alpine 
homeland, turn i rig 'his eye to the siin, flies suri- 
tvarduntil his strength is 1 gone, whtri he" falls in- 
to the sea and ntfoltg. Again after ten years he; 
becoming 1 weary of thWesoliations around j him, 
attempts to fly to the sun, when he again falls in- 
to the sea wherte again lie molts, and so on un- 
til he is a hundred years v bld when he falls tb rise 
ho more. ' Brother, did ydu ever,- like the eagle, 
attempt to go to the Strn (Jesus)? •> « i- - • ' 

Look about 1 you— you are morB desdlately 1 
Environed than the eagle 6n the Alps. ' The crie& 
bf-the suffering arid the dying are on every side 
together with the graves of the dead. • • - '- 

Death assumes a thousand shapes and hal- 
lows no day!! Sin is a serpent of many' heads 
'and creeps through all these mountains and rocks 
of desolation with a million blo6dy hands' and 
feet, and eyes as red as the flames of perdition. 

Learn a lessson from this bird and get up 
closer to Jestis. Fly high, Oh! fly high,' Brother! 
*'They that wait on the Lord shall mount up with 
wings as eagles." <Isa v 40 : 31. I 

We are told to add to our faith virtue, kriow- 
lege, temperance, patience, Godliness, brotherly 
v kiiidness ard to brotherly 1 kindness charity! 
which implies a consummation — an end not of 
grace butan ! end in grace.' ' ' ' * ' ' ■ ' M 

We all admit that C!od is omnipotent and then 



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sJEkith when we deny-that Helsubie 
po save us from all sin. . . . 

r ; The doctr,ir^e of christian perseverance is 
very strongly taught in thje above. comparisons, 
and the .doctrine of perseyerarjce is. th,e founda- 
tion of HalinQss. E£ence John says, "Every 
pne that hath this hope in him puritieth himself 
even as he is pure." 1st John, 3:3. f 



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CHAPTER V. 

Consecration. 

Consecration is the last stage through which 
we pass to enter (and obtain by faith,) the sancti- 
fied state. While I would not attempt to tell 
the very day of my conversion, I can tell, and do 
know the very day and place when I was conse- 
crated to God. On the 13th of Dec, 1885, one 
quiet Sunday evening, I made the offering unre- 
servedly and wholly. I gave myself to God, 
soul and body, for time and for eternity. 0, 
blessed be His ho]y name, how happy and con- 
tented I have been since! I often think of Jacob's 
u Vow," and of the command, "Present your 
bodies a living sacrifice." I am often surprised 
at myself!! Once the world and the things of 
the world engaged my mind to such a fearful 
and dangerous extent — now so dead to the 
world and the things of the world. "I am dead 
to the world — nevertheless I live; yet not I but 
Christ liveth in me." 

Now, dear brother, it is not right common 
for men in the midst of health, friends, flattery 
and prosperit3 r to go into the state of consecra- 
tion. Driven from home as Jacob was, sleeping 
in the open air, with a rock for our pillow will of- 
ten help ns to ascend the ladder that Jacob saw — 
consecration is one of the runds. Affliction are 
sometimes another means. Praise the Lord for 



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" sweet afflictions. " It was on coming back to 
health that I loved God so much as to give Him 
all, brother. My altar burns since that day. 
Some people's altars are as cold as Baal's on Car- 
mel. While they, like Baal's worshipers, cry out, 
"0, Lord, hear — hear us — hear us." If you want 
your altar to burn, give all to God and the fire 
will fall, and the people will be convinced, if, not 
converted. 

The road to glory never seemed so short as it 
has since this offering. It seems as if heaven had 
extended its corporations and made us a part of 
the same — and we were surburbans of glory, I 
know that this is " heaven's border land." 

Consecration might be taken for sanctifica- 
tion, as there is a wonderful degree of similarity 
existing between the two. They, like twin sis- 
ters, go lovingly together to glory. Really, I be- 
lieve consecration to be all sanctification is — 
faith excepted. But consecration might have 
sin — not actiye, but passive,which is removed by 
faith in the power and will of Jesus to save us 
from all sin. 

I verily thought often, while in the consecra- 
ted state: "Is it not sanctification?" But now I 
know it was not, because I did not believe that 
Jesus was able to save me from all sin — and able 
to save me all the time. 

Afflictions, I know, helped me into this 
blessed state. St. Paul said that they (afflictions) 



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work out for us a far more and exceeding weight 
of glory — consecration is the tent — sanetification 
is the manna. 

To consecrate is to dedicate solemnly to Al- 
mighty God— -to set apart to a holy purpose. 
Brother, come closer to God in this way. Giye 
your body, as well as your soul, to God. Glorify 
Him in your souls and bodies which are His. A 
living sacrifice, holy acceptable, is what our Lord 
wants — make it without delay. If we had a 
thousand bodies it would be an offering too 
small when compared to what Jesus suffered for 
us. Consecration is not a hard work. The devil 
will likely persuade you that it is an impossible 
thing to give your whole soul and body to G$d; 
and also try to make you think that if you made 
the offering in the morning, by night you would 
be back in his dirty work, and so awe you from 
the attempt. But, my dear brother, you believe 
God rather than the devil, and " present your 
bodies a living sacrifice" to God, holy and ac- 
ceptable, which is your reasonable service. 



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CHAPTER VI. 



Examples of Consecration. 

For Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves to-day 
to the Lord, even every man upon His son, and 
upon his brother, that he may bestow a blessing 
upon you this day."— Ex. 32:29. 

You see, brother, that a blessing was to be 
the result of this consecration, 

A< Seven days shall they purge the altar and 
purify it, and they shall consecrate themselves. 
Ezek., 43, 26. After this consecration the priests 
were to make their offerings and had the promise 
of being accepted. See next verse. 

"AndHezekiah answered and said, "Now 
ye have consecrated yourselves to the Lord, 
come near and bring sacrifices and thank-offer- 
ing into the house of the Lord. " — 2 ch., 29 — 31. 
Here was another instance of consecration to the 
Lord. The consecrated brought offerings to the 
Lord (as the word implies), in the prophetic 
dispensation. In the present dispensation we 
have no priest on earth as was Aaron to bring our 
offerings to, to atone for our sins, and as an offer- 
ing for and sign of consecration. But we can go 
to Jesus by faith and make the offering of soul 
and body for time and for eternity. This is the 
offering He requires. A body living — holy and 
acceptable, which is but our reasonable service. 



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CHAPTER VII. 



Holiness. 

What is Holiness? Here is the great ques- 
tion — the most important question— for the Word 
says that without holiness no man shall see the 
Lord. If it had said without baptism none shall 
see Him, we might contend about it as some do- 
but it don't say so. I repeat the question, What 

w EE-O-ILi-I-lT-ES-S-S ? Holiness 
I believe to be this in the heart o* man : To 
have every passion and temper and disposition 
and desire in meek and humble subjection to 
God's holy will. To say in all things, Thy will 
O Lord, not mine be done. To love the Lord thy 
God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thy- 
self. To take pleasure in infirmities— in re- 
proaches — in necessities— for Christ's sake. To 
be gentle and meek to all men under all circum- 
stances and at all times. This kind of holiness 
in the heart of man changes the body. His 
hands, his feet, his tongue, are all the instruments 
of righteousness unto holiness — His body is a 
" temple— a holy TEMPLE ! ! in which God 
deigns to dwell — with the Son of His love, and 
the world's redeemer. Brother, is God really and 
truly dwelling in your body ? — if so it is holy — 
for God can't stay where sin is. "If Christ be in 



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you, the body is dead because of sin. 7 ' — Rom,, 
8 ; 10. 

If the church is not contending for holiness, 
for what is it contending ? The point at issue 
will never be reached until wa as (rod's people 
come out and contend for Holiness, which means, 
sanctification— perfect love — charity. There and 
then thevictorv will come to God's people. 

The Revolutionary Fathers fought many 
battles before they knew for what they fought. 
Finally, after many months hard fighting, when 
the Declaration of Independence was signed— 
with the name of John Hancock at the head and 
that of George Walton at the tail — the issues of 
the war were met. They fought for " Liberty." 

In the late war of secession, many hard bat- 
tles were fought before the point t issue was 
reached, but finally when Abraham Lincoln de- 
clared that on a certain day the slaves should all 
be free. Armies foughtno more uncertain battles 
but they knew for what they warred. . ■ ' . f 

Now the church in many places - has been,. 
and is to this good daj% warring an. uncertain 
warfare!! What must be done? What are we 
contending for? A partial deliverance from sin? 
No. Let us contend for full salvation — " Holi- 
ness" — write it on the banner of every soldier. 
The high priest wore it always between his eyes— 
"Holiness unto the Lord," and with such an en- 
sign, in the name of the Lord, the world will be 



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converted. Not long since I was requested to 
preach in the town of Dyersburg, Tenn , on the 
subject of sanctification. The announcement 
was properly male in the Gazette, the paper of 
that town, and lo and behold 1 when the day- 
came and I had gotten there to fill the appoint- 
ment I was informed by one of the Deacons that 
there were objections to that doctrine being preach- 
ed in their church house!!! and I was dependent 
on the Y. M, C. A. for their hall, which was free- 
ly granted. But I wonder much what kind of 
doctrine they have preached within that house 
— if they can't stand to hear Holiness?!! 

Any Baptist church that is afraid of the doc- 
trine of holiness — sanctification— has departed 
from the faith. 

The command in the Old Testament was, 
" Be ye therefore perfect even as your father in 
heaven is perfect."- He taught the disciples to 
pray, " Thy will be done on earth as it is done 
in heaven." If the above passages mean any- 
thing they mean all that is expressed, if not, they 
mean nothing. 

A good brother said to me not long since, I 
wish you would come and preach some for us, for 
we have members who are living in adultery and 
some of the members know it; and besides all 
this, this man is one of the leaders in the church 
-agoing as messenger to the Associations ! ! Oh, 
what a picture, brother! This is uglier than mor- 



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monism. May the good Lord deliver us and 
save such a one from the lake of fire and brim- 
stone. St. Paul is very plain in his words to 
Timothy, concerning these despisers of those that 
are good, and of the unholy. He says, " For of 
this sort are they which creep into houses, and 
lead captive silly women laden with sins, led 
away with divorce lusts!!! See 2nd Tim. 2 : 6. 
A popular doctor of medicine said to me, u Sir 
I would have my right hand taken off before I 
would be guilty of things that the members of a 
certain church are guilty of. " Now, brother, is 
it strange that such people should object to sanc- 
tification or holiness? Not at all. 

Some people are like the Arkansas negro is 
said to be — very religious but having very little 
morality. Religion that don't make us moral is 
certainly a very poor kind. This is the same in 
kind with that that has a pure spirit but sinful 
flesh !!! 

Many of our brethren are continually urging 
us to go on to perfection, but no sooner are we 
arrived there than the crj r of " heresy " is raised, 
and we are anathematised as unsound in the faith 
and good for nothing but the fires of their indig- 
nation. 0, Lord, open their eyes that they may 
see. 

I verily believe some object to the doctrine 
of holiness, or sanctificacion, because the Metho- 
dists teach the same in part. Such preachers 



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should think awhile, for they teach Methodist 
doctrine when they teach that our Lord left Jos- 
eph's tomb on the morning of the third day. 
The Methodists teach the same all over this land. 
But a short time since I was accused by one of 
my brethren, so I was told by another, of preach- 
ing Methodist doctrine because I had said I be- 
lieved that the rich man fed Lazarus. I suppose 
the good brother had heard some Methodist 
preacher say something similar and he just con- 
cluded that that was Methodist doctrine!!! So 
much for ignorance. 

My dear brother, I would not lead you astray 
for all the world ; hence I plead with you, and 
with all that love our Lord Jesus Christ, never 
to be contented short of "Perfect Love"— of "Rest" 
in Jesus. " We that believe do enter into rest. " 
— short of holiness without which no man shall 
see the Lord. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

Holiness, Prophecies of. 

" We have also a more sure word of prophecy 
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed.'' — 2 Pet. 
1:19. 

Peter says we do well to take heed to the 
word of prophecy. Did the prophets say any- 
thing about this holiness or sanctificat.ion? We 
will see, brother. 

Daniel said : "Many shall be purified and 
made white and tried." — Dan. 12 : 10. Many, 
he says many, shall be made white ; but how 
many ? None can tell. 

"And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of 
silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi and 
purge them as gold and silver, that they may 
offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness/' 
—Mai., 3:3. 

"And I will turn my hand upon thee, and 
purely purge away thy dross, and take away thy 
sin."Isa., 1 : 25. 

" Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you 
and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and 
from all your idols will I cleanse you." — Ezek., 
36 : 25. 

The above prophecies plainly teach that 
many shall be made white — purified — sanctified. 



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One says they shall be purified as silver and gold ; 
another that they shall be sprinkled and cleansed 
— the elements used being fire and water. The 
Holy Spirit is intended thereby certainly, as it 
is compared both to fire and water. 

" Purifying the sons of Levi as gold and 
silver are purified" is conclusive evidence that 
there was good in these sons of Levi. Not so 
with the unconverted, for he is said to be dead 
and blind. He that is dead hath no life — the 
blind cannot see. 



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CHAPTER IX. 



Sanctification. 

Charles H. Spurgeon (B.) of London, says : 
u To be made holy is a heavenly boon. To be 
sanctified is as great a favor as to be justified. 
Purity of heart is to be had by believing in the 
Lord Jesus Christ. Is not this good news ? See 
sermon in u Examiner " of New York, of August 
26th, '86. 

When writing on this subject some months 
ago, I had not claimed the blessing of sanctifi- 
cation. But now, all honor to His glorious name, 
I trust my Lord for full salvation. I feel that 
there is power in Jesus, blood to cleanse and 
keep me from ail bin. Brother, pray don't think 
this strange or call me wild. Why should it be 
thought a thing incredible that the Son should 
make us free? Well may A. B. Earl write of the 
" rest in faith " or John Bunyan of " Beulah's 
land" and of the country on his way where the 
sun shines all the time. David wrote well when 
he said, " He maketh me to lie down in green 
pastures. He leadeth me beside still waters." 
What less could Paul have meant than sanctifi- 
cation when he wrote of " sitting together in 
heavenly places in Christ Jesus"? 



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This is the rest I have prayed for so long. It 
is trust in Jesus without a fear. It is perfect 
love — it is the grandest of all the christian's 
graces — his crown. It is charity. It is the giv- 
ing of body as well as soul to God — our hands as 
well as our hearts. It is faith that works by love 
nnd by which we enter into rest. " We that 
believe do enter into rest." 

Edgar M, Levy (B.) D. D., of Philadelphia, 
says : " But while we regard justification by 
faith of vital importance, we must not overlook 
the equally important doctrine of sanctification 
by faith."" 

In the Baptist Church Manual by J. Newton 
Brown, D. D., of Philadelphia, is found the dec- 
laration of faith of Philadelphia Baptists in 
eighteen articles. The tenth reads as follows : 

u X. Of Sanctification." 

" We believe that sanctification is the pro- 
cess by which, according to the will of God, we 
are made partakers of His holiness, that it is a 
progressive work, that it begun in regeneration, 
and that it is carried on in the hearts of believers 
by the presence and power of the Holy Spjrit, 
the Sealer and Comforter, in the continual use 
of the appointed means— especially the Word of 
God. Self-examination — self denial — watchful- 
ness — and prayer." 

In Article 17 we read as follows : u We be- 



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lieve that there is a radical and essential differ- 
ence between the righteous and the wicked : that 
such only as through faith are justified in the 
name of the Lord Jesus, and sanctified by the 
spirit oT our God, are truly righteous in His es- 
teem." 

The above expressions of* faith are from the 
leading Baptists of America and Europe, and 
are founded on God's word, and well worthy of 
adoption by all God's people. 

Dr. Fuller (B.) says of sanctificition : ( 'But 
we forget that salvation from the power and cor- 
ruption of sin, must be in the same way — that 
is by faith, the same as we are pardoned." 

Again : " After rededicating myself anew 
to God in company with others, I was in my 
room alone, pleading for the fullness of God's 
love, when all at once a sweet peace filled all the 
vacuum in my soul, leaving no unrest — no dis- 
satisfied feeling in my bosom," was A. B. Earl's 
(B.) experience. 

Hear St. Paul Paul in 1st Thes.,5 : 23, u And 
the very God of peace sanctify you wholly — and 
I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body 
be preserved blameless unto the coming of our 
Lord Jesus Christ." In 1st Thes., 4 : 3 we read : 
" For this is the will of God — even your sanctifi- 
cation." 

Our blessed Lord prayed for His disciples to 
be sanctified. Who is the man who would dare 



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deny that it is a thing impossible for mortality 
to be sanctified with the above testimony ? None 
but one so vile that he does not desire it. 

Brother, when this doctrine is preached and 
practiced by all God's people, there will be such a 
wave of glory roll over this sin-cursed world as 
never before. Great revivals will follow. Right- 
eousness will fill the earth. Wars will cease. 
Sectarianism, with all its attendant evil?, will 
fade away. Theocrasy will give place to one 
grand and glorious Theocracy. Amen ! for 
more faith on the part of the Lord's people — for 
more earnest prayer that the primal but lost pu- 
rity of Eden may be ushered in upon us. This 
is the way in which it will come — (by the help 
of the Lord) — by the preaching and practice of 
Holiness — and not by denominational — strivings 
and contentions. Already the valleys are rising 
up and the mountains sinking down. Prase the 
Lord ! The millenial day is breaking. The 
night has been long and gloomy — but " the mor- 
ning cometh." Amen. 



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CHAPTER X. 



Sanctification, How Obtained. 

Much has been said and written about the 
way in which sanctification is obtained. Some 
believe it to be a gradual, while others say it is 
an instantaneous work. Some make it a separate 
and distinct work from regeneration, while some 
say sanctification is begun when regeneration is 
completed. 

Now, brother, here is the most reasonable (as 
it is the best Bible-supported ), position on this 
subject. That we are sanctified when we are re- 
generated, for the word declares that, u If any 
man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature. Old 
things have passed away, and, behold, all things 
are become new. " 2 Cor., 5 : 17. 

Now, if "old things have passed away, and 
all things have become new, is there any part of 
the man to be renewed? Certainly not. 

Furthermore, I believe some live the sancti- 
fied life from the time of their new creation to 
the time of their dissolution; these, though, are 
few comparatively. Now, if we are sanctified in 
regeneration, one may ask, Why do we fcin af- 
ter regeneration? Well, a new born christian is 
compared to a " little child :" a little child is weak, 
(as well as pure"), and easily imposed on — especi- 



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ally hy its friends. The novice in religion, like 
the little child, is easily imposed on by its friends 
— preachers.J!) They neither preach nor practice 
sanctification. But, on the other hand, deny 
that there is such a blessing or state, and even go 
so far as to denounce those that claim the blessing 
of sanctification. Is it at all strange that these 
little innocent children (christians), lapse back 
into a state of sin after such teachings and exam- 
ples as these? They being in the flesh, and the 
flesh weak, will very reasonably lose the blessing 
under such teaching as this. Now, the arcana 
confronts us as to how the lost peace may be re- 
stored and the blessing once more obtained. 0, 
brother, it cannot be obtained by giving bread to 
hungry men; if so, a hungry man must starve 
without it. Nor by clothing the naked; if so, the 
poor must die without it. How, then, can the 
blessing of sanctification be obtained ? I answer, 
By faith. See Acts 26 : 18. " That they may re- 
ceive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among 
them that are sanctified by faith that is in me. " 

We cannot enjoy the blessing until we have 
a desire to it and pray for it, believing that God 
is able and willing to save us from all sin — and 
are willing to give up everything of an earthly 
nature and to be anything that it is our dear 
Father's will that we be. 

My soul magnifies His holy name, for this 
sweet experience and peace — I believe our dear 



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Lord meant nothing less addressing His disciples 
these words, u Blessed are they that hunger and 
thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.' 7 

Every true child of God has an appetite for 
sanctification, worn out in these words, "Oh, 
for a closer walk with God. " Brother, pray for 
" rianctification " at once. 

What was the vow of the Nazarile but sancti- 
fication? To sanctify means to set apart — to take 
the vow of the Nazarite was to be set apart from 
the world that the man might be more nearly 
united to God. 

To be sanctified is to live a life of purity and 
holiness, by faith, by trusting in the Saviour to 
save and keep us from all sin every day and hour 
and moment. Adam in Eden had power to ab- 
stain from eating the forbidden fruit. We have 
power, by God's grace, to abstain from sin either 
in word, thought or deed. It is only getting 
back into (Eden) our renewed state and living 
there by faith. 



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CHAPTER XI. 



Examples of Sanctification. 

I herein desire to give a few examples of sanc- 
tified ones as found in the word: 

At the time Jacob went from Beersheba and 
went toward Haran and lighted on a certain 
place and tarried there all night, where he saw 
the wonderful vision of the ladder reaching Irom 
earth to heaven, and heard the Lord saying unto 
him that he would be with him and keep him in 
all places he went, and would prosper his way 
and bring him back again to that land. I say at 
that time we are compelled to believe that Jacob 
was a converted man, for he vowed a vow that he 
would give the tenth to God, and that the Lord 
should be his God if He would give him bread to 
eat and raiment to put on and cause him to come 
again to his father's house in peace. About forty 
3 r ears afterward he comes back to Jabbolt, a tribu- 
tary of the Jordan, on his way home with great 
passions. He sends all over the brook and is 
said to have been left alone, though he was not 
left alone, for " there wrestled a man with him 
until the breaking of the day. " And the wrest- 
ler said to Jacob, "Let me go for the day break- 
eth." And he said, I will not let thee go except 
thou bless me, and he blessed him there. Jacob, 
prior to this wrestling and blessing, seems to have 



HOLINESS. 35 



been afraid though God had been with him all 
the while and blessed him abundantly. But 
now, after this grand blessing, when it seems all 
fear was destroyed and he made perfect in love, he 
goes at onceover the brook to meet Essia, his 
brother. " The sun rose upon him" as he passed 
over. Blessed words: u The sun rose upon him " 
as he passed over. Brother, do pass over these 
rough rocks of doubts, and over this brook of trans 
gression and sins that flows like a stream into 
the land where many of our fathers have lived, 
and the sun of righteousness will shine on you. 

Jocob certainly made a grand advance toward 
God here at Jabbok when he received the blessing 
and had his name changed. 

We are certainly very safe in presuming that 
Isaiah was a converted man prior to his vision 
of God's glory, for it seems he had been a prophet 
for some time. However, it seems that this vis- 
ion revealed to himself his true condition. He 
saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lift- 
ed up, and heard the Seraphine crying each to 
other, " Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord, the whole 
earth is full of his glory. " After this, it was, he 
cried out in the bitterness of his soul, "Woe is 
me, for I am undone — for I am a man of unclean 
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of un- 
clean lips. " Isaiah knew his condition, that he 
was "undone" on account of sin. The Seraphine 
knew his condition after he had touched his lips 



86 HOLINESS. 



(will any deny it?) with the live coal — hear it, 
u Thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin is 
purged. " Praise the Lord. Here he is, a perfect 
man, a man without sin and ready to go. Hear 
him after his cleansing, " Here am T, send me." 
Oh! for men— more men — men like Isaiah purged 
with fire from off heaven's altar, who are ready 
to go, and go at any time, and go to any place 
Sanctification alone will qualify us for the work. 
Dear brother, contemplate God's holiness and 
the burning ones who stand round the throne — 
lifted up on high, that you may realize your own 
true condition and be purged from all your sin. 
See Is., 6 ch. 

Again we read in Zechariah, 3rd ch : u Now 
Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and 
# stood before the Lord. " " Satan w r as standing at 
his right hand to resist him. " " And the Lord 
said unto Satan : The Lord rebuke thee, Satan, 
even the Lord that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke 
thee. Is not this a brand plucked out of the 
fire?" 

Here Joshua is said to be clothed with filthy 
garments (which filthy garments represent sin 
as we will see in the sequel,) but, nevertheless, 
" the Lord pronounces him a brand plucked out 
of the fire." Verse 4. "And he answered and spake 
unto those that stood before him, saying : " Take 
away the filthy garments from him." And unto 



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him be said : Behold, I have caused thine ini- 
quity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee 
with change of raiment." Certainly Joshua was 
a regenerated man — as he was a brand plucked 
from the fire — but still he had on filthy garments 
(sin) but these, at the Lord's command, were 
taken away, and he clothed with change of rai- 
ment, with a fair miter on his head. These are 
they who have washed their robes and made them 
white in the blood of the Lamb." 

Enoch is another example of sanctification. 
The account is that he walked with God for three 
hundred years and was not, for God took him. 
Enoch was certainly sinless, and sinless all the 
time he walked with God, else he could not have 
walked with Him, nor could he have entered 
heaven with any or the least degree of sin. Some 
are of the opinion that if a mortal man were to 
become holy it would kill him outright.* 

I have heard people reason so. This is the 
doctrine of the devil to hold men in the fetters of 
sin. Enoch lived it three hundred years — and 
there is no danger, brother, of Holiness killing 
you. We read of many men and women being 
killed by the Almighty — in floods— in flames — 
by famines — by serpents — by the earth opening 
its mouth and swallowing up the people, and by 
the plague — all on account of their sins and be- 
cause they were sinners; — but never of one whom 
God has slain for being a holy man. Men in the 



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name of God and of religion ! ! ! have put to 
death God's Holy ones and made the earth drun- 
ken with their gore — and from the blood of Abel 
to this good day the blood of the saints is crying 
to God for vengeance. Rejoice, brother, that we 
are accounted worthy to suffer for His sake. 

Elijah was another example of sanctifica- 
tion— he was holy, soul and body for nothing 
impure can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. 

Job was another u Perfect and upright man,' 1 
u fearing God and eschewing evil". Notwith- 
standing his downfall, "In all this Job sinned 
not, nor charged God foolishly." — Job, 1 : 22. 
Even after his sore afflictions came upon him, it 
is positively declared, " In all this did not Job 
sin with his lips." — Job, 2:10. 

With delight, brother, I refer you to that 
wonderful man of Jerusalem, who was supposed 
to have been the president of the Sanhedrim, 
"Simeon" by name. " Just and devout, waiting 
for the consolation of Israel, with the Holy Ghost 
upon him," I verily believe, sir, that he was a 
sanctified man — for "when he had taken the 
infant Jesus up in his arms and blessed God he 
said : " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant 
depart in peace." David said, " Mark the 
perfect man and behold the upright, for 
the end of that man is " peace." Prom hence 
may I not reasonably conclude that Simeon was 
a perfect or sanctified man? 



HOLINESS. 39 



"And there was Anna a prophetess," (0 bles- 
sed woman !) "serving God with fastings and 
prayers night and day, departing not from the 
temple." Who would dare deny that she was 
sanctified or holy, as she was serving God "night 
and day in the temple " ? 

" And they chose Stephen, a man full of 
faith and the Holy Ghost "-—Acts, 6:5. See, 
will you, how he is distinguished from the rest 
chosen — "full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, 7 ' 
which is not said of the others. Did he not 
breathe the spirit and prayer of his Lord when, 
dying, he cried out with aloud voice, " Lord, lay 
not this sin to their charge?" Who would say 
this man was not, dying, as he had been living, 
a holy or sanctified man ? 

" There was Cornelius — a devout man — one 
that feared God with all his house and gave 
much alms to the people and prayed to God 
always." See Acts, 10 : 1, With all this, it 
seems that that man needed something, for Peter 
was sent to him to Csesarea, and when he had 
spoken to him the Holy Ghost was poured out 
upon them. Now was Cornelius a converted 
man or not prior to the coming of Peter ? I am 
of the opinion that he was, as a " devout " man 
means a man that worships the true God and is 
no idolator. Furthermore, it is said, he " feared 
God with all his house " and that he " gave 
much alms to the people " — and that he " prayed 



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to God always.'' Now can a man be this kind of 
a man and not be in a saved condition? You 
decide, brother. I think not. Then it seems 
that when the Holy Ghost fell on Cornelius he 
was sanctified. What more reasonable construc- 
tion can be placed on this passage? 

Our Lord commanded the disciples to tarry 
at Jerusalem until they were endued with power 
from on high. It seems they were not fully pre- 
pared for the great work before them. In His 
prayer to the Father, Jesus had prayed that the 
disciples might be sanctified. And they stayed 
in Jerusalem until the promise was fulfilled — the 
Holy Ghost was poured on them. We read 
of Peter's denying his Lord no more, but Peter 
and the rest of the disciples go boldly on to the 
work until it brings them to death and to Glory. 
" Perfect love," which is another name for sanc- 
tification, " casteth out fear." The disciples 
were now made perfect in love. for preachers 
sanctified or made perfect in love to use the 
scourge on those traders, whoremongers, drunk- 
ards, liars and common swearers that have turned 
the Temple into a den of thieves. Some time 
since- 1 heard a man preach over an hour, One 
of the great sins he was condemning was the 
violation of the Sunday — and amazement, bro- 
ther ! ! ! at the end of the sermon (for it was 
Sunday night) he offered books for sale ! ! ! books 
of his own writing. He had about as much 



HOLINESS. 41 



right in the eyes of God and man to sell 
boots he had made as to sell books he had made 
if the Lord's Day be holy. 



42 HOLINESS. 



CHAPTER XII. 



Scriptures Seemingly Contradictory to 
Sanctification. 

In this chapter I will notice some Scripture 
that seems to contradict the doctrine of Holiness. 
In It John, 1 : 8, we read : " If we say that we 
have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth 
is not in us." Strange how many there be who 
use this passage as a covering to their sins — peo- 
ple, too, who pretend to be Christians. I see 
nothing against christian perfection in this pas- 
sage — for there is not a man on earth in his 
unregenerated state that can say, I have no sin, 
for all have sinned and " come short of the 
glory of God." Hence none can say, I have no 
sin. Strange that people are so well acquainted 
with the 8th verse in this chapter and know so 
little about the 9th verse — the very next one, 
brother. Hear it : "If we confess our sins, He 
is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to 
cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Now just 
confess your sins and be cleansed from all 
unrighteousness. 

Bildad, like many others, asks the question, 
Job, 25 : 4 : " How then can man be justified 
with God ? or how can he be clean that is born 
of a woman ? " Because Bildad has asked this 



HOLINESS. 43 



question, saying more, that " the stars are not 
pure in his sight," (Bildad merely asks the ques- 
tion, but does not answer it,) must we fall into 
believing that a man cannot be just? Certainly 
not. Hear what St. Paul says : " Therefore being 
justified by iaith, we have peace with God through 
our Lord Jesus Christ." Here is the way : By 
faith we* are justified. We can and must be 
justified — and just, too, if ever we see God in 
peace. 

But another says Solomon said, u Who can 
saj> I have made my heart clean. I am pure from 
my sin. " Prov., 20 : 9. Here Solomon asks the 
question but does not answer it. The idea con- 
veyed is that not one can sav I have done this — 
"made my heart clean. " The leopard could 
as soon change his spot, or an Ethiopian his color, 
as a sinner to cleanse his heart: what then can 
cleanse our hearts and make us pure from our 
sin? Hear the answer, " The blood of Jesus 
Christ, His son, cleanseth us from all sin. ' 
See 1st John, 1 : 7. There is the way, brother 
O, be washed in the blood. King David said in 
the 51st Psalm and 7th verse, u Purge me with 
hyssop and I shall be clean; wash me and I shall 
be whiter than snow. " In verse 10 we read, (51 
Psalm), " Create in me a clean heart, God, 
and renew a right spirit within me. " Here the 
King prays for a clean heart and a right spirit; 
certainly such a thing is possible or the man 



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would not have prayed so. 

My dear brother, while you read this do pray 
for a " clean heart " and for a " right spirit, " and 
pray in faith, trusting in Jesus, and he will give 
it you. 

James says, chap. 3:2: u For in many 
things we oflend all. " Must we infer from this 
that James offended all in many things? Cer- 
tainly not so. If we must because he uses the 
pronoun we, then his tongue was a world of in- 
iquity, for he says, u So is the tongue among our 
members. " He includes himself here for he says 
"our members," James might very reasonably 
say, "our members " and not include himself, as 
this is a common mode of expression. He might 
have spoken thus and then have been a perfect 
man. As one has well remarked, we might, on 
thesauie hypothesis, make James out a horse 
breaker, for he says, " We put bits in the horses' 
mouth^ that they may obey us. " 

In Matt., 10 : 17, our Lord said to the young 
man, " There is none good but one, that is God. " 
Many go to this text to prove up their position. 
But, brother, this passage taken literally seems 
to prove a little too much to agree with the gen- 
eral tenor of scripture, for the Saviour includes 
himself when he says none is good, or rather he 
excludes himself. Now, we know he had no sin, 
for he is declared to be "Holy, harmless, separate 
from sinners and made higher than the heavens. " 



HOLINESS. 45 



It seems that a reasonable solution of this passage 
is this, that none is good as God is good, but good 
as his children. 

Our dear Lord said, " Blessed are they that 
hunger and thirst after righteousness for they 
shall be filled. " Let a man now make that state- 
ment and the church is ready to throw him over- 
board as they did Jonah. But, praise the Lord, 
Jonah was better off in the whale's belly than he 
was in the ship. 

The book tells us to present our bodies a liv- 
ing sacrifice holy, acceptable to the Lord, which 
is our reasonable service. But now let a man de- 
clare that he has given his body a living sacrifice 
holy to God, and the church is ready to stone 
him and to cast him out of the synagogue and to 
say all manner of evil against him. Praise the 
Lord. In these things we can rejoice and be ex- 
ceedingly glad, knowing that all who w T ould live 
godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. 



46 HOLINESS. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Testifying, 

" And they overcame him by the blood of 
the Lamb and the word of their testimony; and 
they loved not their lives* unto the death." Rev. ? 
12 : 11. 

One grand means of retaining the blessing of 
sanctification, I believe ? is this: To faithfully 
confess what God has wrought in us by his holy 
spirit. This, it is true, may be quite a task for a 
while, but look to Jesus and his grace will be 
your supply. I have had just such experience 
In a church ( solitary and alone ) of about one 
hundred members I testify to full salvation, a 
present and perfect Saviour, and of sweet rest that 
I have found in Jesus. And let me tell you here, 
my brother, that peace comes like a flood to my 
poor soul while I thus testify in the midst of 
scorns and scoffs. It seems that God so gracious- 
ly blesses my poor soul while thus telling of his 
goodness — -that the spirit burns like fire in stub- 
ble. Praise the Lord. He has promised a bless- 
ing that there should not be room enough to con- 
tain it. The extra fire is not lopt. If it does run 
over it will fall into the hearts of the brethren. 
" The fragments will not be lost. " 

Peter admonishes his brethren to sanctify 



HOLINESS. 47 



the Lord God in their hearts, "and be ready al* 
ways to give an answer to every man that asketh 
you a reason for the hope that is in you, with 
meekness and fear," 1st Pet., 3 : 15. Some are 
ashamed !! " Whosoever shall be ashamed of me 
and my words of him will I be ashamed, " says 
our Lord. The testimony of the Lord put John 
on Patmos and took the heads off of others, but 
their souls were found beneath the altar every 
one with white robes. Jesus said to the man out 
of whom he cast the legion of devils, " Go home 
to thy iriends and tell them what great things 
the Lord hath done for thee. " Mark 5 : 19. 

In Acts 1 : 8, we read, " Ye shall be witnes- 
ses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, 
and in Samaria, and unto the utmost parts of the 
earth. " 

David said come and hear, all ye that fear 
God, and I declare what he hath done for my 
soul. " Psalm 66 : 16. 

Paul's admonition is, " Let us hold fast the 
profession of our faith without wavering. " Heb. 
10 : 23. While this profession should be done in 
much boldness, yet it should be in the spirit of 
Jesus, and in much meekness. "Be ye wise as 
serpents and harmless as doves. " The sanctified 
character is here very powerfully illustrated by 
the sublety of the serpent and the harmlessness 
of the dove. The serpent is said to be the most 
subtle of any beast of the field, while the dove is 



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innocent to a degree approaching stupidity. 
When our Lord u answered nothing " in his trial 
Pilot marvelled. He did not so much as make 
his defence, as Paul in after time did. Brother, 
the Lord is our defence. The air is full of angels 
if we could only se. j them. There are fiery 
horses and chariots of fire all around us. 

If you obtain the blessing of sanctification 
let the church and world know it though they 
cast you out of the synagogue. The thunders of 
excommunication may terrify you to a degree, 
but this is nothing compared with the seven 
thunders of the wrath of Almighty God. There- 
fore let the word of your testimony be heard. 



44 I'll tell to every saint I meet- 
To sinners high and low- 
That trusting in the Saviour's blood, 
It washes white as snow." 



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CHAPTER XIV. 



Faith Healing. 

I have often thought, Why has the church 
ceased to exercise the power of healing once given 
it by its great Head ? 

In all ages the Lord's people have had a 
power, which the world has not had, that of 
healing. Perhaps at no epoch of the world's 
history was this power of curing the sick so neg- 
lected and disregarded as now. Why this great 
apostasy ? for the Lord's people have apostatized 
in this way. See what follows: "And the 
king answered and said unto the man of God : 
Entreat now the face of the Lord thy God and 
pray for me that my hand may be restored me 
again. And the man of God besought the Lord 
and the king's hand was restored him again, and 
it became as it was before." — 1 Kings, 13 : 6 

"And it came to pass, when they were come 
into Samaria, that Elisha said, Lord, open the 
eyes of these men that they may see. And the 
Lord opened their eyes and they saw." — 2 Kings, 
6 : 20. 

" Turn again and tell Hezekiah, the captain 
of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of 
David, thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I 
have seen thy tears ; behold, I will heal thee — on 



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the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of 
the Lord,"— 2 Kings, 20 : 5. 

The above passages are all taken from the 
Old Testament, which amply prove that the 
Lord's people possessed this power then. The«e 
are enough to convince any one, to say nothing 
of the common work of healing the leper (the 
most incurable of all diseases) without the use of 
medicine. 

When our Lord commissioned his disciples 
He gave them power over devils to cast them out 
— and power to cure all manner of diseases 
among the people — and when they failed on one 
occasion to cast out a devil, He at once ascribed 
it to lack of faith, saying, "0 ye of little faith." 

That the disciples did cure diseases none 
will dare deny. I need not give one instance, as 
the New Testament abounds with cases of this 
kind both before and after Pentecost, 

St. Paul declares that " The manifestation 
of the spirit is given to every man to profit with* 
al. " He says, " For to one is given by the 
Spirit the word of wisdom— to another the word 
of knowledge — by the same Spirit. 

To another faith — by the same Spirit — to 
another the gifts of healing — by the same Spirit. 

To another the working of miracles — to 
another prophecy — to another discerning of spir- 
its — to another divers kinds of tongues — to ano- 



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ther the interpretation ot tongues — 1 Cor., 12 c, 
8-9-10. 

From the above we learn that all have not 
the same gifts. Some are gifted in one way 
while some are gifted m another. Some prophesy. 
Some interpret. Some have the gift of knowl- 
edge. While some have the gift of healing. 

Why has this precious jewel of the Bride's 
paraphernalia been so neglected and become so 
rare? Can it be th.it God has changed! ! I ? Cer- 
tainly not so. But because of unbelief, sin and 
hardness of heart — but for lack of Holiness 
preached and practiced. 

But, says one, O, this power of healing the 
sick was confined to the Apostles, and we have 
no such power now. Can there be a christian 
man or woman in all the length and breadth of 
this land that would not pray for their friend if 
very sick? Certainly not. Then, brother, you 
pray for something you don't believe, if you 
deny faith healing. 

Some, though, insist that this power was 
only given to the disciples. What did our Lord 
say concerning this? — " These signs shall follow 
them that believe. In my name shall they cast 
out devils — they shall speak with new tongues." 

They shall take up serpents, and if they 
drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. 

They shall lay hands on the sick and they 
shall recover."— Mark, 16, 17 : 18. 



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Here our Lord declares that these signs shall 
follow them that believe. Not may, or can, 
but SHALL follow. 

Now did these signs follow, and are they 
following, the true believers? Yes, we know 
these signs did follow as long as the Apostles 
lived and wrote — and even to this good day, 
brother, there are some who believe and practice 
this same grand Bible doctrine. 

For more than two hundred years after the 
death of Christ every historian knows that the 
church practised what is commonly called the 
working of miracles. 

Tertullian challenged any of the christian's 
heathen enemies to bring him a demoniac, enga- 
ging, at the hazard of his life, to oblige the evil 
spirit to depart in His name — and by the author- 
ity of Christ. — Tertullian's Apology, chap. 22. 

"It is further known," (says Dodridge) "that 
those who were agitated by such spirits stood 
terrified and amazed in the presence of chris- 
tians." Furthermore, there are many living 
Witnesses in the world to-day who could if called 
on bear testimony to this precious Bible truth 
and doctrine. 



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CHAPTER XV. 



Commands to Pray for the Sick and 
Examples of the Same. 

Hezekiah prayed and the Lord heard hi^ 
prayer and healed him, adding fifteen years to 
his life. 

James says ; u Is any among you afflicted ? 
let him pra}\" 

Is any sick among you ? let him call for th 3 
elders of the church, and let them pray over 
him, anointing him with oil in the name of the 
Lord. 

"And the prayer of faith shall saye the sick, 
and the Lord shall raise him up. " 

Confess your faults one to another, and pray 
one for another, that ye may be healed. — James 
5, 13 to 16. 

The Jews taught that the reason the leper 
was commanded to cry aloud, "Unclean I— un- 
clean !! " was that the people thereby might 
know of his calamity and offer prayers in his 
behalf. 

Our Lord taught that u whatsoever ye desire 
when ye pray believe that ye have it and ye shall 
have it." 

Why, brother, is it not as reasonable to pray 
for the body to be restored as it is for the soul to 
be saved ? Certainly it is* 



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Brother, is not our Lord as able to cure a 
pain as he is to blot out a sin ? He certainly is. 

Men pray for rain. Men pray for peace in 
time of war. Men pray for grace to support 
them in time of trouble and distress. Men pray 
for men in their sins. Men pray for men in 
prison. Men pray for men on the sea. 

And why, I ask, shall not men pray for the 
sick? And why should they pray for the sick 
unless they believe? and if they pray and believe 
not, it is sin, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. 

And if they pray in faith for the sick, why 
may they not have their request granted ? There 
is no reason why they may not. 



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CHAPTER XVI. 



Baptists, of all People, Should Teach the 
Doctrine of Sanctification. 

All the prominent tenets of the Baptist 
church converge like the rays of the sun to one 
grand center, which is Holiness. 

Take Baptism. In that act is declared, be- 
sides the death, burial and resurrection of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, that we are dead to sin, 
and so dead that we are buried — covered entirely 
up. When we bury a man he walks no more in 
this world. Can an act or type be stronger or 
more declarative than is Baptism in this matter? 
Not only are we buried to show our entire death 
to sin, but we are raised up from the dead as it 
were. We are resurrected, to " walk in newness 
of life — to walk and talk, and live as a new 
being. Baptists make (and scripturally, too,) a 
profession of holiness in the act of baptism, 
though they may deny it in their lives and teach- 
ings. 

The Lord's supper is a holy supper — none be- 
ing admitted but the circumcised, or baptised. 
Those who have declared to the world and devils 
that they are dead to sin and that they have 
been resurrected to a new life, and for this cause 
are worthv go eat the flesh and drink the blood 



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ot their blessed Sayiour, declaratively, since they 
are feeding on Him by faith. 

The very foundation of perseverance is holi- 
ness If a man can persevere to the end in sin 
and be saved, then all men may be saved !! Their 
declarations of faith teach sanctification. Spur- 
geon talks it to the Londonians. Many in these 
United States are teaching it, from Philadelphia 
down to the people in the backwoods and high 
timber. They sing it in their songs and pray it 
in their prayers, and read it in their Bibles!! 
Holiness, Samson-like, has been sleeping on the 
lap of the fair Delilah, the church. Like a tied 
Samson struggling for freedom, Holiness, ere 
long will rise, breaking the green withs of sin 
as tow thread is broken when it touches the fire, 
and fill the earth as the waters cover the sea. 

So strange,brother, that some Baptists object 
to the doctrine of sanctification with all these 
things before them !!! The word is come to pass. 
The time is at hand. " They will not endure 
sound doctrine * * * but have turned away 
their ears from the truth. "' 

I have thought that if I believed as some 
Baptists do that we are only partially saved, in 
this life from sin — (we certainly admit this doc- 
trine when we deny the doctrine of sanctification) 
that we do wrong to testify to full salvation in the 
act of baptism. Now, if we verily believe as we 
declare we do in baptism that we rise up to a 



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newness of life? How long, pray tell, is this 
state retained ? You, perhaps, are ready to an- 
swer, until we sin. Well, dear brother, can't the 
power that renewed us take that ugly spot from 
the soul, and make us as pure as at regeneration. 
Amen. How plain it is; none need stumble here. 
Why, our dear Lord taught the disciples to pray 
" Thy will be done on earth as it is done in 
heaven. Do you not believe this is possible? 
It certainly is possible for His will to be done on 
earth as the angels do it in heaven, or our Lord 
would not have commanded the disciples to have 
prayed so. 

In John 17, 15, our Lord prayed that the 
disciples might be kept " from the evil." Now, 
if it be impossible to be kept from the evil, as 
some seem to teach, would our Lord have prayed 
so? Certainly not. 






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CHAPTER XVII. 



The Mixed Creature. 

Of all the strange things of modern times it 
seems to me that the strangest is the modern 
christian, as some have him. He is a saint and 
he is not a saint !! He is a child of God but is 
serving the devil!! He swings like a pendulum 
between heaven and hell, and vibrates between 
hope and despair. One day he is on the mount of 
transfiguration and the next in the valley of dry 
bones !!! He is a tree bearing good and evil fruit. 
A fountain sending forth sweet water and bitter. 
He is the servant of two masters !! He is a thorn 
tree with grapes and a fig tree with thistles. He 
is certainly the nearest something to be nothing 
and the nearest nothing to be something in all 
earth's zoology. He seems to be the nearest we 
can come to him, a " connecting link, " not be- 
tween the human and brute, but between the 
child of grace and glory and the child of wrath 
and ruin. He seems to be as the people were on 
Carmel, " halting between two opinions 7 '!! Na- 
ture has no such species; and why should grace 
have ? The mermaid is a creature of fancy. 

He is urged by his brethren to go on to per- 
fection or holiness, but at the same time these 
same brethren declare that there is no such place 



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this side of death, and are ready to excommuni- 
cate and brand as a heretic the poor soul that gets 
there!!! 0, consistency!!! What a jewel thou 
art. There is not an evangelical church in the 
land but requires perfect obedience to the law of 
her members. In church discipline every church 
requires holiness, though they deny it in their 
preaching. 

Now, is this strange prodigy of a christian 
what our Lord would have him be? Must we go 
through this life but half or partially saved? 0, 
is it really our lot to be tormented all our life 
time with gloomy doubts and fears regarding our 
salvation, or our Lord's goodness? Where is the 
child that doubts its father's goodness or his son- 
ship? I ask again, are we bound and compelled 
one day to curse God with the same tongue with 
which we blessed Him the day before ? To all 
hese questions answer No! 

" These things ought not so to be. " We 
should live in a path the light of which increases 
more and more unto the perfect day, where the 
Sun of Righteousness shines brighter every day 
and without a cloud. 

It is God's will that we live in a state where 
imaginations, thoughts, and things that are high 
and exalt themselves against him, shall be " cast 
down. " 

It is His will that we " rejoice evermore. " 

Woe to these people that talk so much about 



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not being able to control their thoughts!!! Re- 
member, " Charity thinketh no evil, " which is 
but another name for holiness. O, brother, " fly 
high;" get up above the clouds of doubts and 
fears and be something, and no longer an uncer- 
tainty, and let that being be a christian so that 
you may know yourself. 



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CHAPTER XVIII 



Why we Sin After Conversion. 
That we sin after conversion is evident (Not 
that all sin, for there are some, I verily believe, 
who are Nazarites from the time of their new 
birth until they are taken home to heaven — 
men so dead to sin that sin hath not dominion 
over them— sanctified and made meet for the 
abiding presence of the Holy Spirit.) However, 
a much greater number sin. Why? Well, you 
see, brother, the newly converted or regenerated 
man is like a " little child. " How, you may ask, 
is a ''little child "? The little child, in the first 
place, is pure — saving his innate depravity for 
which he is no more accountable than he is for 
Adam's transgression. Most all agree that all 
who die in infancy are saved, and for this cause 
I am of opinion that in conversion we are sancti- 
fied, for the converted are like " little children. " 
Again, the little child is ready to believe whit is 
taught it, so with the new convert it is ready to 
believe what is taught it. If the church, in any 
way, teaches its members that they cannot live 
in this world without sinning they are ready to 
believe it, and the result is a bad one. They do, 
and reasonably too, lapse back into a sinning 
state !! At whose door this sin will lay the Lord 
only knoweth, Brother, but at some door it must 



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lay. Woe to such watchmen that teach that 
right is wrong and that wrong is right, and that 
we must be in bondage all our days to the enemy 
of our souls, when it is a fact — Holy truth, that 
"whosoever the Son maketh free is free indeed. " 
These preachers (!!) that denounce the doctrine 
of sanctification being possible deny, so far, the 
teachings of God's word, and remind me of the 
watchman described by Isaih 56, 10 : 11 : Her 
watchmen are all ignorant; they are all dumb 
dogs. * * * sleeping * * * They are 
greedy dogs that can never have enough "!!! Look 
here, preacher, and see yourself!! 

Now, dear brother, here's one thing. Re- 
formed drunkards by hundreds live and die 
who reformed without making religious profes- 
sions. Common swearers and whoremongers 
have quit this part of the old serpent's work with- 
out making public profession. 

Now, won't " religion "—the Holy Ghost — 
the spirit of burning — the presence of the Father 
and the Son — in a mortal man, do as much for 
him as he can do and has often done without it? 
Certainly, and a thousand times more. 

When the physiognomist had pronounced 
Socrates one of the most libidinous, gluttonous 
characters he had ever met, his reply was that he 
had been such but had overcome his nature by 
his philosophy. This proves that a heathen man 



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can do more with himself than some teach we 
can do with God to help us!! Woe to the world 
because of offences! 

Our great Master said to the woman taken in 
adultery, a Go and sin no more." If an adulter- 
er can cease from this sin so as to " sin no more," 
and we know he can, why not all kinds of sins 
be likewise forsaken? 

Again. There is a disposition in the regener- 
ate at times to sin but this disposition is no part 
of the renewed nature — is no part of the renewed 
man either material or spiaitual, for "he is a new 
creature; "old things are passed away and all 
things are become new. ,J The regenerated are 
as Adam was in Eden, "In the image and like- 
ness of God, " good and very good. And as they 
are like little children in weakness the evil one 
comes upon them and often overcomes them, (not 
always), Hence you see clearly, brother, that 
the evil that God's children do is the effect of an 
outward cause which is the devil. And if he 
gets us into trouble at all it will be through his 
subtlety, and by deception, for none of the holy 
ones sin knowing or willingly. Never. 

Another reason why we sin after conversion, 
or rather why satan gets the advantage, is, we are 
not so watchful and prayerful as we should be, 
0! brother, while we watch and pray we are safe. 

But know this, that if the good man of the 
house had known in what watch the thief would 



64 HOLINESS. 



come he would have watched and would not have 
suffered his house to be broken up. " Mat., 24, 
43. " watch and pray lest ye enter into tempta- 
tion," This is the way to keep out, by watch- 
ing and praying. 



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65 



CHAPTER XIX. 



St. Paul's Experience. 

The 7th and 8th chapters of Paul to the 
Romans have been hard for me to reconcile, they 
seem so contradictory. In the 7th chapter he 
says: "I am carnal, sold under sin." " For 
that which I do I allow not for what I would 
that do I not, but what I hate that do I. * * * 
I find then a law that when I would do good evil 
is present with me." 

u Fori delight in the law of God nfter the 
inward man. But I see another law in my mem- 
bers warring against the law of my mind and 
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin 
which is in my members." Finally he concludes 
by crying out, " 0, wretched man that I am ! " 

. When we begin to preach holiness to the 
people, it is wonderful how many can remember 
these words of " Paul" and run to this chapter 
of Romans for an excuse for their sins — and for 
living in sin. Why, my dear brother, they seem 
to have entirely overlooked the 8th chapter — the 
next one — where the same writer says : " There 
is, therefore, now, no condemnation to them 
which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the 
flesh but after the Spirit" — for the law of the 
spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free 



66 HOLINESS. 



from the law of sin and death. ,J Notice, the man 
in the 7th chapter was "sold under sin/' while 
the one in the 8th is "free." Nor is there any 
condemnation against this man in the 8th chap, 
who walks not after the flesh, but after the spirit. 
Still further, in the 8th chapter, we read, 4< And 
if Christ be in you the body is dead because of 
sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. 
But we are told, with all this, that we must and 
are bound to serve the devil all our days — with 
our flesh !! Finally he concludes this chapter wich 
these words, " Who shall lay anything to the 
charge of God's elect ? — it is God that justifieth." 
God has an elect on earth — yet. 

Now, dear brother, the best construction I 
can place on these seeming contradictory chap- 
ters is this : In the 7th chapter he tells the state 
of the man not mide perfect in love, or sancti- 
fied — (the state of " perfect love" and sanctifica- 
tion I understand as the same); — while in the 
8th chapter he shows the man's condition after 
he has ceased to be led by the flesh, but is led by 
tho spirit of God, beside the still waters of salva- 
tion, where he can lie down in the green pastures 
of God's love. These two chapters taken so, and 
so understood, appear clearer to me than ever 
before. Tn fact I know of no other reasonable 
construction to place upon them. 

Paul prayed that the Ephesians might " be 
able to comprehend with all saints what is the 



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breadth and length and depth and height * * * 
and that they might be filled with all the fullness 
of God,"— Eph., 3, 18: 18. What more is intended 
or expressed in that wonderful prayer of the 
great apostle, than sanctification ? Can sin re- 
main where one is filled with all the fullness of 
God? Certainly not. Should we not daily pray 
for this blessing? 

Our Lord said, u The kingdom of heaven is 
in you." While thus filled with God the differ- 
ence between here and yonder is: Here the king- 
dom of heaven is in us! And yonder we will be 
in the Kingdom of heaven ! Glory, for the Lord 
God omnipotent reigneth. " Make us glad all 
our days. " Amen and Amen. 

In the 7th and 8th chapters treated on above 
the apostle may have direct reference to himself 
as some interpret. If so, we see, very plainly, a 
vast difference in his life, if we compare him in 
his gloriously liberated state, to the time when 
tie was "carnal sold under sin" — ml walking af 
ter the flesh, or if intended for all men we see 
the same difference — a state of "bondage " and of 
"glorious liberty. " 0, brother, pray to the Son 
to make you " free indeed. " 



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CHAPTER XX. 



Debates. 

There is one evil I have seen the effects of, 
and verily believe that it, like the upas tree? 
poisons many leagues around — that is, religious 
discussion, so-called ! But there is little or no 
religion about it. It is making a foot-ball of 
religion to please the multitude — to tickle the 
crowd. Brother, if you are praying for holiness, 
and I believe all of God's children are, avoid these 
one-horse religious (0 debates in these school 
houses and little towns, for they engender strife. 
They thrive best in the high timbered regions 
and are generally engaged in and sought after by 
men of small caliber religiously, and hardly ever 
fail to bring forth their fruit, strife and division. 
Our Lord prayed that all that believed on Him 
should be one. These debates but deepen and 
widen the fissures formed by the eruptions of the 
"dark ages" which the sediments of holiness 
are fast filling up, Ye champions of Israel ! re- 
member Korah and his company — -the earth 
opened her mouth and swallowed them up — be 
careful and prayerful — ere you fall into one of 
these fast-returning fissures and are ground to 
powder. 

Where is the command for these debates? I 



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cannot find it in the Word. The good Nehemiah 
had an opportunity to "reason" with his enemies- 
Bat his reply to them was that he was doing a 
great work and had no time to go down to them. 
The word debate only appears five times in 
the Word, either in a singular or plural form, 
and now T here are we commanded to indulge in 
such. But on the other hand, we read as follows 
in Isaiah, 58, 4: "Behold ye fast for strife and 
debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness 
* * * to make your voice to be heard on high ! 1 " 
Strife and debate go link and link like parts 
of a great chain. Look now into the New Testa- 
ment and see " debates " in the very worst of 
company. In Rom. 1, 29, we read : " Being 
filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wick- 
ness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, 
murder, "debate" deceit, malignity, whisper- 
ers ! ! ! Here it is in the midst oi all its concom- 
itant evils. See again 2nd Cor., 12, 20 : " For I 
fear lest when I come I shall not find you such 
as I would, and that I shall be found unto you 
such as ye would not, lest there be " debates ", 
envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisper- 
ings, swellings, tumults." Here, brother, is the 
last time "debates" appears in the New Testa- 
ment, and in the same old depraved company. 
And to-day when found in the name and livery 
of heaven though it be ! ! he has the same dark 
demons marching before him and behind him. 



70 HOLINESS. 

Our Lord said : " Let your communication 
be yea, yea, and nay, nay, for whatsoever is more 
than these cometh uf evil." — Mat., 5, 37. When 
they were trying our Lord before Pilate "He 
answered nothing " insomuch that Pilate mar- 
veled. 

The last bequest of Jesus to His disciples 
was Peace — " Peace I leave with you, my peace I 
give unto you," One has said it was his best and 
dying gift. It was a part of the song the angels 
sung over the " new born babe " of Bethlehem. 
" Peace on earth." 

In Titus, 3, 9, we read : " But avoid foolish 
questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and 
strivings about the law, for they are unprofitable 
and vain." 

Here St. Paul says that " strivings about the 
law are u nprofitable and vain; " but some of our 
modern "Drs. " (! !) think there is great profit in 
such things ! There may be, and no doubt is, 
much profit, in a way, to these modern " defend- 
ers of the faith"!! But I have ever failed to 
see the good accruing to any church by such 
"striving" and "contentions" about the law. 
The less wj have of these things, brother, the 
holier and happier we will be. 



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CHAPTER XXI. 



The Witness of Sanctification. 

One might ask, How may I know if I am 
in the sanctified state for if there be such a state 
attainable there must be some way how I may 
know it? Now, this is a reasonable question, 
and I answer in part by asking you one, brother. 
How do you know that you are in the renewed 
state ? You perhaps are ready to answer that 
you have "peace with God/' for " being justified 
by faith we have peace with God. " This is cer- 
tainly right. Furthermore, between the two 
states I understand this to be the difference: The 
unsanctified have love to God but it is not per- 
fect love for they have fear, while " perfect love 
casteth out fear. " The sanctified are not afraid. 
u Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night 
nor for the arrow that flieth by day. " — John 14. 

(In the above David is speaking of the man 
that " dwelleth in the secret place of the most 
High.") 

The unsanctified have doubts while the sanc- 
tified have none. The man to whom God has 
lately shown himself as his Saviour has no doubts, 
so with the sanctified. The clouds are gone and 
the thunders are hushed. 

The unsanctified may have the witness of the 



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spirit to-day and on the morrow be praying for 
it, while the sanctified are continually praising 
and blessing God for the "Comforter that is abid- 
ing with them. Furthermore, brother, we know 
that in the sanctified soul all is gentleness, meek- 
ness, temperance and love. Are you gentle, 
meek, temperate and lovable at all times? The 
sanctified fc# walk with God" as Enoch did. The 
sanctified u follow the Lamb wherever he goes. " 
They " eat the hidden manna. " 

A good brother once said to me, " I am 
w T ith Jesus all the time. " I said, Brother, what 
is that but sanctification ? He said, u That's 
what it is. " Living without doubts and fears is 
to be in the sanctified state. If you havj no bur- 
den you know by this, too, that you have enter- 
ed this state. Jesus has given you rest. Blessed 
words, " I will give you rest. " 

" If you can bear, believe, hope, and endure 
all things " you may know, by this, that all is 
well. This is true charity which we are com- 
manded to add as a final-finish to our faith. 



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CHAPTER XXII. 
EXPERIENCES. 



The Author's Experience. 

I have often related my experience as a 
child of Grace, but have never written it. Now, 
for the first time, after prayer, I attempt to give 
you an idea in writing, brother. The time has 
been when I felt embarrassed to even relate my 
experience. Being raised up by a Methodist 
mother I attended their meetings ; many would 
teli of the wonderful blessing they received at 
the time of their conversion — telling the very 
place and day of the same. And I, as I thought, 
had such a poor experience, when compared with 
theirs, as I have said, I felt embarrassed to relate 
it along with them. But thank the Lord, my 
brother, now that I have gotten out of such feel- 
ings of fear. You know He cured a hand for 
one, while he raised to life the dead son of an- 
other. He does much for some, while not so 
much for others ; but makes all whole — every 
whit. 

About my new birth : I am like the poor 
man whose parents were illiterate. I ask him : 
How old are you, brother? He says : "I cannot 
tell, from the fact that my parents kept no family 



HOLINESS. 



record, and besides this, they went 'up higher 1 
many years gone, and for this cause I can't tell 
when I was born." But with all this the poor 
man knows "one thing," and that is that he is 
living. I have never found a living man yet, 
so wofully dull that he could not tell whether or 
not he was alive. But many people belong to 
the church who would, no doubt, tell you, if 
asked, that they did not know if they were 
christians or not ! ! Well, like this poor man, I 
can't tell the very day of my conversion — or new 
birth — yet, like him, I know I am living, for I 
love God, and whosoever loveth is born of God. 
I know that the Holy Spirit came to me when 
very young — about four years old, brother ! ! I 
will never forget it, oh bless His holy name to- 
night for such an early visitation. I believe with 
all my heart that it was the voice of Grace I heard 
that night. This early impression seems never 
to have left me. I began soon after this to pray, 
so soon after that I cannot remember the time 
when I have not prayed daily. I felt that I 
loved God when but a youth. My mother, oh, 
blessed mother! had me to goto preaching and 
to Sunday School; I studied the word very 
closely, continuing almost instant in prayer. 
About this time my Lord wonderfully saved my 
life. I was thrown from a very wild mule, (had 
been plowing him hard, as I thought, breaking 
him down so I could ride him the easier,) one of 



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tny feet hung in one of the chains of the gear, 
and I in this periloua condition, was dragged 
some distance. My dear twin brother was there 
but could render no assistance. The Lord de- 
livered me from this. Praise his holy name. 

As I. grew older, the burden of my prayers 
seemed to be for a closer walk with God — to 
know more of his love, to be a holier man. I 
had a strong " hungering and thirsting after right- 
eousness," but somehow never thought of being 
"filled." 

I read Fletcher on Sanctification, but some 
how "my eyes were holden," I gained little or 
nothing from it. I still felt that there was a state 
in holiness that I had not attained, or in other 
words, a state in holiness for me to live that I 
was not living, how to attain it was the question. 
I had tried for rest many weary years — perfect 
rest, sweet rest — but had failed to enter it, and 
why ? Because I sought it not by faith. "They 
entered not in because of unbelief." 

Along came an evangelist, the Rev. W. B. 
Godbey, (M,), he preached sanctification. The 
people said he was crazy. I went and heard 
him, he opened up the Scriptures on this subject 
as never before, to my understanding. Many 
embraced the blessing and testified with great 
rapture what the Lord had done for them. I 
began seeking the blessing faithfully and prayer- 
fully, night and day with tears I sought it. I 



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was actually wanting the evidence before I had 
the faith. 

The coming of this evangelist to our town 
was, I believe, in August, 1885, In December 
following, after a short spell of sickness, (I was 
still seeking sanctification) one quiet Sunday 
evening sitting by the fire in dear mother's room, 
"1 made my will," as I called it. I gave myself 
all over to the Lord and his service, my body as 
well as my soul, for time and eternity; to be 
used in any way, at any place, and at any time 
it suited his holy purpose. This was consecra- 
tion, and a sweet state it was, all I lacked now was 
to believe that my Lord was able to keep me 
from all sin, and to keep me all the time. In 
this state I lived very happily for four or five 
months. In the time the Rev. J. H. Collins, 
(M.) and wife, with the Rev. J. J. Smith, (M.), 
visited our town, Fulton, Ky. Thank the Lord 
for these holy people. Still I was not perfectly 
at peace, I would get on my knees anywhere in 
public or privately, and pray for the ^blessing— 
much about this time, brother, the devil gave me 
trouble; he would reason in this manner: You 
a preacher praying before all the people for 
sanctification I ! The people will talk about it ! 
(And they did). Your brethren may turn you 
out, (and they may) — anything, that my Lord 
may be reigning in my poor soul without a 
rival, I am willing to be nothing that my Lord 



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may be all in all. Finally one night alone in 
my room — but like Jacob I was not alone, for 
Jesus was with me — I took my dear Lord as a 
perfect and a present Saviour; I believed and 
entered into rest, and peace, and perfect love. I 
had no fears, I had no doubts ; glory to God, nor 
had I any burden, neither have I any burden 
this morning. I "walk in the light," I have 
peace with God and with all men. 

The very next morning after taking my Lord 
as a present and perfect Saviour, and confessing 
the same before men, the devil came to me again 
in the way of anger. He came almost like a flash 
of lightning from a cloudless sky, but was 
gone in like manner, and has not so returned 
since. Glory to God ! I now live in a land of 
light, the clouds are gone; the thunders are 
hushed ; the wind has changed, and comes direct- 
ly from the high land of heaven with an increas- 
ing gale, Amen. 

The following lines I wrote, it seemed, while 
the chariot was coming for my poor soul : 

Oh for the car of living lire, 

And fiery horses too 
To take my weary soul up higher , 

His holy will to do. 

I'm tired of this poor dying rate, 

I want to run— tofly; 
The very dregs of sin to hate, 

And unto all sin die. 

I want to move among the star™ 

And suns of holy men; 
Gome let the lightning push the car, 

Since I have entered in, 



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Oh, how I move— the world is gone — 

Dropp'd like lead in the sea, 
And moving upward, sing my song, 
And glory's precincts see. 

And now I ride, and now I rest, 
My sins are all forgiven, 

My soul at least has her request— 
A perfect view of heaven. 



-T. W. 



Extracted From Eli>. Edgar M. Levy's (B. f ) 
Experience of Sanctification. 

" That night I was unable to sleep. I was 
completely broken down in heart before God. 
The vision of Isaiah seemed reproduced. " " I 
also saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and 
lifted up. " " Then said I, woe is me, for I am a 
man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of 
people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen 
the King, the Lord of hosts. " 

The morning at length dawned, and on ev- 
ery ray I could read, " Walk in the light as He 
is in the light. " " Holy, holy, holy is the Lord 
of Hosts, as chanted by the Seraphine, seemed 
floating through all the air. My justified soul 
was in love with this attribute of Jehovah. It 
seemed the most heautiful thing in the universe. 
As I thought of God it was not so much his pow- 
er or wisdom or justice or love that attracted my 
attention as his infinite, spotless holiness. 

That day—Friday, March 9, 1871— was ob- 
served by the church as a special season of fasting, 



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humiliation and prayer. My soul was in great 
agony. I can compare my experience on thir 
memorable day to nothing else than crucifixion. 
It seemed to me that I had gone up with Christ 
to calvary, and was transfixed to the cruel and 
shameful cross. A sense of loneliness and aban- 
donment stole over my mind 4 ' A horror of 
great darkness fell upon me " and all the powers 
of hell assaulted my soul. The enemy brought 
before me, with tremendous force, my life-long 
prejudices, my theological training, my profes- 
sional standing, my denominational pride. It 
was suggested that I must leave everything be- 
hind me, should I go a step farther in this direc- 
tion. The dread of being misunderstood, of hav- 
ing my motives questioned, of being called "un- 
sound in doctrine," of being slighted by my min- 
isterial brethren, and treated with suspicion and 
coldness, filled my heart with unspeakable an- 
guish. Everything seemed to be sliding from 
under my feet. My sight grew dim ; my strength 
departed, and faintness like unto death came up- 
on me. 

This mental conflict, however, soon subsided. 
The storm-clouds passed away and light began to 
stream in. I was now done with theorizing 
with philosophical doubts and vain speculations. 
The struggle was over. I cared no longer for the 
opinions of men. I was willing to be a fool for 
Christ, and suffer the loss of all things. I was 



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like a little child. I cried out, " teach me thy 
way, 0, Lord ! and lead me in a plain path. " 
Just then the fountain of cleansing was revealed. 
Angel hands seemed beckoning me to enter it. 
Jesus stood before me with his bleeding wounds, 
saying, " Come in! Come in ! " 

I turned to my congregation and said, I 
stand before you to day a poor, weak and help- 
less sinner. I have tried to find the way of holi- 
ness by every possible means. All my efforts, 
my struggles, my prayers, my fasting, and my 
round of duties, have proved miserable failures. 
God is making a wonderful revelation to my 
long-darkened understanding. I an confident, 
now, that it is not by growth, or by effort, or by 
works of any kind, for then would our salvation 
be of works, and not of grace. If we confess our 
sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, 
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It 
is the blood that must cleanse, and keep us clean. 

" In that day, saith the Lord, there shall be a 
fountain opened to the house of David, and to 
the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for un- 
cleanness. That day has come. There lies the 
fountain of my Saviour's blood. It was opened 
for me, even me. I fell upon my knees and bow- 
ed my face to the floor. For a moment I felt 
that I was sinking in a great sea and that all its 

. waves were going over me. But they did not 
seem to be the waters of death. The congrega- 



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tion were singing, 

"I am trusting Lord in thee, 

Dear Lamb ot cavalry. 
Humbly at thy cross I bow. 

Jesus saves me — saves me now. 

The spirit of God whispered these precious 
words, " But if we walk in the light, as he is in 
the light, we have fellowship one with another, 
and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth 
us from all sin." It does now, this instant' 
cleanse! My faith laid hold of this wonderful 
truth, A strange peace entered into my soul. I 
exclaimed within myself, I am free! my heart, 
my mind, my soul, my body, are washed in the 
blood of the Lamb, It was all so strange, so new 
so unlike anything I had ever experienced before 
that I could not utter a word, and then the only 
sentiment of my heart was, "Lord, it is done, 
I am saved. " 

When the meeting ended, I repaired immedi- 
ately to the parsonage. I experienced great phy- 
sical exhaustion like Jacob, who was never so 
weak as when he had just preyailed with the 
angel. 

I threw myself into a chair and at once the 
blessed baptism came. I seemed filled witli all 
the fullness of God. I wept for joy. All night 
long I wept, all the next day, at the family altar 
in the street, and in the sanctuary, tears contin- 
ued to flow. The fountain of my being seemed 
broken up, and my heart was dissolved in grati- 



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tude and praise. My soul seemed filled with pul- 
ses, every one thrilling and throbbing with such 
waves of love and rapture that I thought I must 
die from excess of life. At once I had a new 7 and 
wonderful sense of the presence of Christ. Those 
words of Jesus were made real to me. " Abide 
in me and I in you. " I had now an abiding 
Christ. With Mrs. Edwards I could say, " The 
presence of God was so near and so real that I 
seemed scarcely conscious of anything else. " I 
seemed to be taken under the care and charge of 
my God and Saviour, in an inexpressible endear- 
ing manner. The peace and happiness which I 
hereafter felt was altogether inexpressible. The 
whole world with all its enjoyments and all its 
troubles seemed to be nothing. My God was my 
all — my only portion. 



Testimony of J. B. McDowell, (M.) Fulton, 
Kentucky. 

I am 47 years old. I professed religion when 
I was about sixteen years old, and joined the M. 
E. Church, South, and I suppose was considered 
a consistent member of the church. I had many 
ups and downs in my religious life, was often 
in doubt, had gloomy times, and was often dis- 
couraged; but wanted to live nearer God. I 
spoke to brethren at different times, and told 
them I was not living as I should, and as I 



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wanted to, they consoled me by telling me that 
my experience was like theirs, and everybody's 
was the same. I spoke to ministers on the same 
subject, and received about the same answer. j 
was not satisfied, but did not know any better 
way until August, 1885, when God in his provi- 
dence sent Dr. W. B. Godbey to our church, (the 
human means used to get him here was our be- 
oved pastor, Rev. J. R. Beli), and he taught us 
the better way. All praise to our blessed 
Saviour. Dr. Godbey's theme was Holiness, 
Perfect Love, Sanctification. Hallelujah to the 
Lamb, for what he taught me. Although a mem- 
ber of the Methodist church for about thirty 
years, I do not remember to have heard a sermon 
on sanctification before Dr. Godbey came to our 
church. What would father Weslev think were 
he to hear such a statement? The Lord opened 
my understanding, I immediately fell in luve 
with the doctrine. Glory to Jesus. I longed to 
have such an experience or testimony as Dr- 
Godbey. I was famishing to drink at that 
fountain. He taught us from the Bible daily, 
that it was true, and that the Bible was full of it. 
I hungered and thirsted after it. I panted after 
it. I thought if I was as good as some few per- 
sons I knew, I could get the blessing; the first 
thought was that I would get as good. I did not 
know how to begin, I had heard much talk of 
growth. I had about this time the daily com- 



84 HOLINESS. 



panionship of my dear Brother, Rev. J. H. 
Collins, better known as California Collins, 
whose unbounded faith can nearly turn the 
world over. He told me the blessing was receiv- 
ed by consecrating all to God, stepping out into 
the world without anything but Jesus, and that 
the blessing was received instantaneously. I told 
the Lord I wanted the blessing. I gave him all, 
family and all, not part, Snd told him I wanted 
it if it changed my name, my appearance, that I 
would rather die than live without the blessing, 
that instant I received it. Glory to Jesus. At 
the same moment he took the taste of tobacco 
from me, although I had been an inveterate 
chewer for thirty years, used ten cents worth per 
day, instantly I lost the taste of tobacco, and 
have never wanted it since; it is now very of- 
fensive to me. Glory to God for such a Saviour. 
Yes, all glory to Jesus. I also drank coffee three 
times per day, and had for many years. A few 
days after I was sanctified, it came to my mind 
that drinking coffee was unnecessary, with a cup 
full before me, I pushed it back in the name of 
my precious Saviour, and immediately lost the 
taste for it. I have never wanted it since. Praise 
the Lord. He saves fully and completely, at 
once, time nor growth will not make any purer. 
I have been enjoying this blessing now about 
fifteen months. I have a steady constant peace, 
a joy in the Lord all the time. I am the hap- 



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piest, healthiest (gained twenty-seven pounds in 
weight), man I know of. My dear wife come 
into the blessing about twenty-four hours after I 
did. I have one sanctified daughter, Mrs. Fannie 
McD. Hunter, who is in the Master's work with 
that grand man of God, Rev." J. H. Collins and 
his dear wife, both of whom are entirely sold out 
to the Lord, God puts his seal upon their work. 
I have a sanctified son 18 years old, wholly given 
up to the Lord, ready to do anything for the 
Master at any time; and another daughter living 
near the Lord and seeking the blessing. Praise 
the Lord, we have a continual holiness meeting 
at our house, our growth is rapid now, that we 
are in grace. We have no backslidings, have a 
constant revival. Hallelujah to the Lord. 
During the last fifteen months I have attended 
over two hundred prayer meetings, (there are 
about fifteen in our holiness band here,) the 
blessed Saviour has been with me all the time. I 
sometimes feel as if I must start out and tell the 
all the world what a blessed Saviour I have 
found; one who saves from the uttermost to the 
uttermost. My blessed Saviour has the same 
power on earth now that He ever had. He heals 
me of all 'my sicknesses. I go to Him with 
every care, every trouble, every pain. He heals 
all my diseases both of soul and body. Glory be 
to His Holy name. My peace is constant, flow- 
ing like a grand river. I am cut loose out on the 



86 HOLINESS. 



ocean o* His love. The way is clear, no doubts, 
no fears, no discouragements, no gloom, no back- 
sliding, no eiiort or pumping up feeling, Faith 
in God gives me feeling and assurance. I am 
weak, but He is mighty. I know that all power 
belongs to God. I do not look to myself for 
purity or goodness. I look to Jesus. There ig 
no self, Jesus is all. May the Lord keep me 
from ever striking the rock in my own name; 
there is a hallelujah in my heart all the time. 
I got this blessing by having the blood of Jesus 
applied by faith. I was truly and soundly con- 
verted. Je?us spoke the second time, and I was 
made whole. Glory to his name. 

My dear brethren and sisters, in the Lord, do 
not rest until you are sanctified wholly. I 
recommend to you a Saviour whose power is un- 
limited ; walk with him, then you can con- 
tinually walk in confidence. Blessed Jesus, how 
I love you. 

But I must stop; there is not paper, pens, 
ink, hands, or time enough to tell you, even the 
introduction of this grand blessing. Dear reader 
get it, get it, then you will have all tim'e and 
eternity to enjoy it. 

Bro. Wadlington, you told me to write my 
experience or testimony on sanctification, I can- 
not do it ; meet me in heaven and I will tell you 
all about it. I praise the Lord for a double ex- 
perience to-day ; justification and sanctification. 



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May God bless you and all holiness worker.?. 

"Oh Jesus, Jesus, dearest Lord 

Forgive me if I say, 
For very love, thy sacred name, 

A thousaud times a day." 

Yours in Jesus, 

J. B. McDowell. 



Testimony of R. M. Bolinger, (JVf.) 
Fulton, Ky. 
About 18 years ago, the Lord for Christ sake 
pardoned all of my sins, I don't think so, but I 
know he did. I had many sweet seasons, was 
happy and loved God, but I would get in the 
back-ground, gloom, and doubts would gather 
over me so often. I tried to do my duty the best 
I could, but Satan would get the upper hand of 
me. I said and felt that there was a higher 
plane and that it was attainable in this life, but 
did not know how to get there, but had made up 
my mind to get there or die trying, and now I 
give him all glory and praise. 

"Once my path v, as dark as night, 
Now Thy presence makes it bright." 

I praise God this beautiful morning that he 
ever sent Rev. W. B. Godbey to this place. He 
came here about 16 months ago, and taught us 
that higher life, and oh! how grand and glorious 
is this higher life! Hallelujah to the Lamb of 
God that taketh away the sins of the whole 



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world. I have put everything on the altar, when 
I did that and made a full surrender of every- 
thing, God sanctified me, and now he keeps me 
all the time, and saves me to the uttermost, and 
now 

"For a thousand tongues to sing 

My great Redeemer's praise, 
Tt e glories of my king; 

The triumphs of his grace/' 

I ever expect to praise his great and good 
name. "Redeemed — how I love to proclaim 
it !" It used to be that I could not get up and 
testify for my Saviour; but glory be to his holy 
name I can talk for him now any where. I just 
want to be led by him and do his will. I am so 
glad that I can say, Thy will be done, in my 
heart. Glory to his name. 

I wish I had language to express and tell 
what the good Lord has done for me; but when 
we get to heaven and are clothed with the 
heavely robes, then we can talk and sing praises 
forever. And now, before I close, I want to ask 
the blessing of God to accompany this book, and 
that many souls may be led from darkness to 
light, is my prayer, blessed Saviour. 
Yours in Christ, 

R. M. B. 



Extracted from the Experience of Rev. 
J. H. Collins, (M.) 

" Still I was not entirely sanctified, but felt 



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hungry for more grace. At last one evening I 
listened to a sermon upon the subject of sancti* 
flcation. Under the living testimony the Holy 
Spirit flashed the truth upon my mind. I saw 
there was a second and distinct state which I 
had never entered. It was the crisis. I rose 
from my seat regardless of the opinions of others 
and made my confession of the need of entire 
sanctification, and humbly claimed to embrace it 
with all its consequences. I claimed the prom- 
ise of God in relation to my own soul, and 
avowed, as He had declared, that " the blood of 
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." As God 
had said it, so I would say it 4 and I there planted 
myself upon the promise for full salvation, and 
affirmed it to be a fact. I expected to feel much 
better, but when I came to examine myself, I felt 
worse. Rather there was a dearth or emptiness 
of feeling. It was a trying time. Still I avowed 
my sanctification was wrought according to the 
will of God. 

This trial of faith continued about three 
days, when, while one evening engaged in public 
prayer, the power of The Highest overshadowed 
me. There was the sweetest and most satisfying 
sense of the Divine presence. Glory to God ! He 
had given the witness. My soul bathed in the 
delightful rest of the Holy Ghost. Every mem- 
ber of my being was filled with the cloud of 
Glory. My soul was satisfied as never before. I 



90 HOLINESS. 



now realized that whereas I had been walking 
along the road to heaven, often begrimed with 
sweat and dust, now the King's chariot had 
halted near me, and I had stepped in where I 
could career along the highway of holiness. As 
I looked upon my robes of white, I felt satisfied 
with what God had done for me. I praised Him 
for all. In short, I rejoiced evermore, prayed 
without ceasing, and in everything gave thanks. 
Bat I cannot tell it all. Since that time my 
peace has flowed as a river. I have felt the pres- 
ence of the adorable Saviour as an everlasting 
reality.' 7 

"O wondrous bliss, O joy sublime— 
I've Jesus with me all the time ! " 



Rev. J. J. Smith's (M.) Testimony. 

In 1867, in Cumberland county, Kentucky, 
I was powerfully convicted of sin. I sought 
help wherever I could find it. I went to Poplar 
Grove to church and there I met the Rev. B. A. 
Cundifl. Praise the Lord for such a man full of 
faith and the Holy Ghost. He taught the way 
of salvation so plainly, my purpose was well 
established. 1 went home held family prayer ev- 
ery night and morning, prayed in secret every 
day. In the morning of the fourth Sunday in 
June. I went with brother John Keen to Beech 
Grove he; preached; I prayed for the witness of 
the spirit but was too weak in faith. At 4 o'clock 



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p, m. the Rev. E. Right preached at Mrs. D. 
Fletcher's. I was powerfully converted, shouted 
aloud, — Peace on earth, good will to men and 
glory to God in the highest. God had already 
called me to preach. I held prayer and class 
meeting with good results, 

I was received on trial in the Memphis An- 
nual Conference at Brownsville Term., in Nov., 
1877. For nine years I have labored in the regu- 
lar work. I have witnessed about sixteen hun- 
dred conversions, I always felt it a great privilege 
to be a witness for the dear Saviour. The Lord 
gave me victory on every battle field, but I was not 
wholly sanctified. I sought sanctification by 
works— from the time I was converted until Ju- 
ly, 1885, when at Fulton, Ky., I heard the testi- 
mony of the Revs. W. B. Godbey, J. H. Collins 
and others testifying to sanctification by faith, 
additional light came into mind. The precious 
promises were no longer under a cloud. All 
things are possible to them that believe. I be- 
lieved and was wholly sanctified. I have had fif- 
teen months of a most blessed experience. Not 
a doubt, not a fear for " perfect love casteth out 
fear ." 

I have preached entire sanctification in all my 
congregations this this year. Some have been sanc- 
tified. Many are seeking the same. Have had 
over'two hundred conversions as the result. 
— Experience of Rev. J. J, Smith, of Clinton Ky., 
Oct, 27, 1885. 



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REMARKS. 

You will see, my Brother, from the fore- 
going testimonies, that all have not exactly the 
same experience, while there is a very manifest 
agreement of spirit manifested, and that spirit is 
the spirit of meekness, gentleness, faith and love, 
which is the Spirit of our Lord. We do not all 
give the same testimony, which is the stronger 
evidence in favor of this precious Bible doctrine. 
The apostles, in their account of the resurrection 
of Jesus, differ somewhat in their statements 
regarding his leaving Joseph's tomb, which has 
substantiated his rising from the dead. Had 
every one told the same thing, there might have 
been a shade of doubt about it. But by this 
apparent confliction, we are gainers and not 
loosers. So in our testimony, you see a disagree- 
ment just enough to dispel your doubts, (if in- 
clined to doubt) and to convince the skeptic (if 
not convict and convert him) of honesty at least 
on our part. However, in the main we are a 
unit — we exactly agree — and that is this: that 
our dear Lord and Saviour has power to save 

FROM ALL SIN, and to SAVE ALL THE TIME if we 

but believe and trust him. 

Furthermore we are agreed as to the manner 
of this cleansing that it is by faith. How could 
we disagree on this, when the word is so positive 
and clear on this "sanctified by faith that is in 
me." 



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If you have, my dear Brother, a desire for 
perfect love, holiness, sanctification, and I believe 
you have, ask your kind Father in heaven now 
for what you want, and he will give it to you j 
but ask in faith, for that that has not faith is sin, 
This hungering for righteousness is God-given, 
and not'innate, and if he gives us the appetite he 
will give us the bread— Holiness. Amen. 



94 HOLINESS. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Growth. 

Some are in the faith, it seems, that we grow 
into the sanctified life by degrees, and that it is 
an impossibility to be cleansed at once. The 
faith that we are cleansed by degrees always car- 
ries along with it the doctrine of salvation by 
works. The idea is this, that we must continus 
in good work that we may, by this way, work our- 
selves into holiness — going up as a man climbs 
a ladder, by degrees, This is not God's plan. He 
has promised to save to the utmost. If we do it 
by our own strength we would have whereof to 
glory, but not before God. Growth is an excuse 
to serve the devil — to gratify our passions and 
pride, with the honest intention of becoming sin- 
less some day, you know not when nor where, 
Why must you grow into the sanctified life? 
brother? It is either because you are not wil- 
ling to be made whole — and Holy now; or be- 
cause God is not able to save you to-day. Which 
reason will you give? 

Certainly you are bound to admit that the rea- 
sons you don't want to go over at once and pos- 
sess this goodly land, you don't want to give up 
your (idols), sins. No doubt, the thought of 
you, a poor, frail mortal, being made whole at 



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once; — the devil telling you this almost fills you 
with despair. No sooner had the feet of the 
priests been dipped in the brim of the river, 
when Jordan was overflowing its banks, than 
the water was cut off from above and the people 
passed over right against Jericho. Move up, 
brother, at once, trusting in the u Lord of all the 
earth, ' and all these imaginary demons will 
scamper off to their own dark kennels. 

After you enter the sanctified state every 
victory may be yours. God will fight your bat- 
tles. 

Some have gotten into the faith that in. the 
sinless state we will grow no more — but this is a 
mistake, for we are then just then prepared to 
grow. Your corn never grows so well as when 
all the weeds are out of it. We are then just 
prepared to develop and to help our poor weak 
brother to go on to perfection. 

Now that there is sanctification by faith — in 
a moment — and without works, the poor man 
that died on one side of Jesus proves. They 
were receiving "the due reward of their deeds 
(as oi)e testified) and in this condemned and 
dying condition the robber calls on his dying 
Lord, who hears his prayers and promises that 
he should be with Him that day in paradise. 
This man had no time to grow into a state of 
holiness, nor had he time to work out his sancti- 
fication. The work was done and done at once 



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in the robber's case on the cross, 

Isaiah cried out, "I am undone for, for I am 
a man of unclean lips. " The seraphine touched 
his lips with the live coal and said, "Lo, this has 
touched thee and thine iniquities are taken away 
and thy sins purged.' 7 The work was quickly 
done. Then flew, right then, one of the burning 
ones — seraphine. 0, brother! What can move 
faster than one of these six- winged-seraphs? The 
living creatures that Ezekiel saw had only four 
wings, and he says of them, "And the living 
creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a 
flash of lightning"!! If the f» >u r-w inged-creatures 
made their errand as a flash of lightning we are 
lost in amazement at the movements of the six- 
winged-seraphine. Then flew one of the sera- 
phine !! Away, then, with the doctrine of grow- 
ing by degrees out of our sins. This ignis fatuus 
may lead you into the lake of fire and brimstone, 
and leave you to writhe in despair with undying 
worms. 

Our dear Lord needs no time but now to 
wash you and make you whiter than snow 

While Daniel was praying and confessing, 
the man ! Gabriel, was caused to " fly swiftly " to 
comfort him. 

We read that in a moment — in the twink- 
ling of an eye! the dead shall be brought to life 
and the living changed !! And you want time to 
grow!! 



HOLINESS. 97 



He which testifieth these things saith ; "Sir, 
I come quickly; Amen, Even so come Lord Je- 
sus. " — Rev. 



98 HOLINESS. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



How is Man ? 

The Theologians! of modern times have got- 
ten into faith that man is a trinality in his na- 
ture — that is that he is threefold. Spirit soul and 
body. This I utterly denounce. I have looked 
close in the word and fail to find out man's trin- 
ity. This would make man like his Maker — 
trinal. The brute, I understand to be a unit, 
man binary or two-fold, and God a trinity. Fa- 
ther — Son — and Holy Spirit. 

The question now is How is man? I say, bi- 
nary. See him in his creation. The first man 
was "created" — made of nothing. The last man 
was "formed of the dust of the earth." 

The first man had nothing to do, but had 
"'dominion over the fowls of the air and over the 
beasts of the earth, oyer the fishes ot the sea, and 
over every herb bearing fruit. He was a mighty 
ruler and had for his realm the earth and sea — and 
dominion over all things therein — animate and 
inanimate. 

The last man " formed of dust" was restrict- 
ed to the limits of Eden. 

He had to " dress and keep the garden " — 
had to labor. He could not, as the first man, 
(" created. ") eat of every herb. He might eat of 



HOLINESS. 99 



all the trees save one, 'The tiee orf the knowledge 
of good and evil. " 

" In the image and likeness of God, " the 
first man was — " created, " but this is not so said 
of the second man — "iormed of the dust.'' There 
is no account of a creation of a third man in man, 
so we see that in his creation he is binary. May 
we not reasonably say that the " created " or first 
man was the soul or spirit, and that the man 
"formed" was the temporal or materialman? 
Man is twofold and the account of his creation is 
repeated. 

How is man ? See him in his nature. In 
him is the positive and the negative— the mate- 
rial and the immaterial. His passions go forth 
in pairs. He loves or hates. He weeps or he re- 
joice?. He is in ease or he is in pain, &c. 

But where in man is the inner man? I 
might first name the lace as the place to find the 
soul or spirit, for here are all the senses centered. 
How common the saying, " You could almost see 
his soul in his eyes. " 

Some have ascribed it a place in the brain,, 
about the cerebrum and the cerebellum, for from 
thence it seems the various parts of the body are 
controlled. 

Some have said, with some degree of reason 
too, that the heart was the seat of the soul, for in 
the word one is named often when the other 
is intended as, " I will take away the hard and 



103 HOLINESS. 



stony heart out of thy flesh and will give you a 
heart of flesh. ■" And again, "With the heart 
man believeth unto righteousness " — " The heart 
is decitful above all things and desperately wick- 
ed. " 

Others, not without reason, have said that the 
blood was the soul. For in the scripture it is 
said, " Thou shalt not eat the blood for it is the 
life of the flesh. Lev., 17 : 11 : 12. 

Finally others have said that the soul or 
spirit was in every part of man — in his heart, 
head, hands and feet — in all and in every part of 
him, which I most believe; for St. Paul says, 
" There is a natural body and there is a spiritual 
body. " — 1 Cor., 15, 44. After our Lord's resurec- 
tion when he appeared to the disciples they were 
affrighted, supposing they had seen a spirit. Our 
Lord said, " A spirit hath not flesh and bones;" 
conveying the very idea of a " spiritual body. " 

Now, my dear brother, here is the idea. If 
the spiritual man be in every part of man, which 
I believe is most generally accepted, and he ( the 
spiritual man, ) be pure and holy is it not reason 
itself that ever}' part of -the material man be pure 
and holy — sanctified and meet for the master's 
use ? 0! brother, how plain; may Jesus help you, 
and help you right now to be made whole — to be 
saved from all sin. Reader, pray for sanctifica- 
tion — for faith to believe all that Jesus has prom- 
ised. Glory to his holy name. 



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In the account of men's creation and forma- 
tion above quoted, T simply ask if it may not be 
that the "created" man answered to or was the 
spiritual man, while the man formed was the 
material man. The first man was "created," 
made of nothing; the second man "formed" 
was made of the dust of the earth. See Gen. 1st 
and 2d chapters. We might suppose that the 
first man was the fountain from which flowed the 
inhabitants of Nod, where Cain found his wife; 
and we might suppose on to time's end, regard- 
ing the double creation. I only suppose with 
some degree of reason. 



IISriDIEiX:. 

CHAPTER. PAGE, 

1. Can a Man be a Christian and Not Know 
It? 5 

2. The Flesh and the Spirit 7 

3. Tne Commandments.... 10 

4. The Kingdom of Heaven..... 13 

5. Consecration 16 

6. Examples of Consecration 19 

7. Holiness 20 

8. Holiness, Prophecies of 25 

9. Sanctification 27 

10. Sanctification, How Obtained 31 

11. Examples of Sanctification 34 

12. Scriptures Seemingly Contradictory to 

Sanctification , 42 

13. Testifying 46 

14. Faith Healing 49 

15. Commandments to Pray lor theSickand 
Examples of the Same , 53 

16. Baptists, of all People, Should Teach the 
Doctrine of Sanctification 55 

17. The Mixed Creature 58 

18. Why we Sin after Conversion 61 

19. St. Paul's Experience 65 

20. Debates 68 

21. The Witness of Sanctification 71 

22. Experiences 73 

23. Growth 94 

24. How is Man? 98 

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